Montgomery Village, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Montgomery Village at a glance
Montgomery Village serves about 4,519 people through 1,400 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Orange County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3503542; phone on file: 845-457-9661. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.2 ppb from 3.8 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Montgomery Village is 15.1 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 15.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 3.7 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Montgomery Village's 6 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in New York and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
129 other systems share Orange County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Montgomery Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kiryas Joel | 51,623 | 9 ppb |
| Middletown City | 30,000 | 1 ppb |
| Newburgh City | 29,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Windsor Consolidated Wd | 25,667 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newburgh Consolidated Wd | 22,282 | 1.5 ppb |
| Wallkill Consolidated Wd | 18,450 | 1.97 ppb |
| Monroe Village | 12,000 | 3 ppb |
| Woodbury Cons. W.D. | 10,845 | 8.5 ppb |
| Cornwall-On-Hudson | 9,700 | 1 ppb |
| Port Jervis City | 9,000 | 3.04 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Montgomery, 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 Montgomery Village 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.