Minerva Wd, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
About Minerva Wd
Minerva Wd serves about 800 people through 320 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Essex County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1500286. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (4.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Minerva Wd is 7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 7 ppb |
How Minerva Wd compares
Of the 2,077 New York systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.5 ppb; 17 are over 15 ppb right now and 165 have gone over at some point. Minerva Wd's 5 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in New York and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
32 other systems share Essex County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Minerva Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Placid V | 5,000 | 2.2 ppb |
| Ticonderoga Wd | 3,700 | 2.1 ppb |
| Moriah Wd | 3,100 | 1.1 ppb |
| Schroon Lake Wd | 2,750 | 1.5 ppb |
| Adirondack Correctional Facility | 2,400 | 3.85 ppb |
| Chesterfield Wd | 2,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Henry Wd | 1,831 | 1.2 ppb |
| Willsboro Wd | 1,571 | 2.4 ppb |
| Bloomingdale Wd | 980 | 1.3 ppb |
| Crown Point Wd | 980 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Minerva, NY 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 Minerva Wd 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.