Northwoods Estates, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2020). 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 Northwoods Estates
Northwoods Estates serves about 315 people through 105 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Jefferson County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2220874; phone on file: 315-286-9770. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.85 ppb from 0.55 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Northwoods Estates is 2.4 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.55 ppb |
How Northwoods Estates 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. Northwoods Estates's 2.4 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in New York and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
56 other systems share Jefferson County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Northwoods Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Drum | 34,000 | 0.4 ppb |
| Watertown City | 27,861 | 6.3 ppb |
| Leray Town Wd 1, 2, 4 | 7,140 | 3.3 ppb |
| Carthage Village | 3,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cape Vincent Town Wd 1 & 5 | 2,600 | - |
| Sackets Harbor Village | 2,200 | 1.2 ppb |
| Clayton Village | 2,100 | 1.8 ppb |
| Adams Village | 2,000 | 4.3 ppb |
| Alexandria Bay Village | 1,900 | 2.6 ppb |
| Pamelia Town Wd 4 & 5 | 1,857 | 4.1 ppb |
Next steps for Evans Mills, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Evans Mills, 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 Northwoods Estates 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.