Northport Va Hospital, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.3 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.
Who runs the water here
Northport Va Hospital serves about 3,088 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Suffolk County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5111894; phone on file: 631-261-4400. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Northport Va Hospital is 42.7 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 42.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.3 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. Northport Va Hospital's 3.3 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in New York and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
25 other systems share Suffolk County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Northport Va Hospital. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Suffolk County Water Authority | 1,100,000 | 1.25 ppb |
| South Huntington Water District | 81,760 | 1.3 ppb |
| Greenlawn Water District | 42,000 | 1 ppb |
| Riverhead Water District | 35,000 | 2 ppb |
| Dix Hills Water District | 34,522 | 1 ppb |
| Smithtown Water District | 19,635 | 1.2 ppb |
| Hampton Bays Water District | 12,500 | 1.3 ppb |
| Robert Moses State Park | 11,600 | 1 ppb |
| St James Water District | 10,587 | 1 ppb |
| Ocean Beach Water District | 4,500 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Northport, 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 Northport Va Hospital 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.