Meadows Park (The), NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.8 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Meadows Park (The) at a glance
Meadows Park (The) serves about 39 people through 52 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Steuben County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NY5000664. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Meadows Park (The)'s lead record
That is up 1.4 ppb from 1.4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Meadows Park (The) is 2.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.1 ppb |
How Meadows Park (The) compares
Of the 605 New Jersey systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 5 are over 15 ppb right now and 52 have gone over at some point. Meadows Park (The)'s 2.8 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in New Jersey and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
1 other system shares Steuben County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Meadows Park (The). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Green Meadow Acres | 100 | 1.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Neptune, NJ may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Meadows Park (The) whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.