Ocean Beach Water District, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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.
Who runs the water here
Ocean Beach Water District serves about 4,500 people through 600 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 Suffolk County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5103280; phone on file: 631-445-4040. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ocean Beach Water District is 1.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.9 ppb |
How Ocean Beach Water District 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. Ocean Beach Water District's 1 ppb sits at the 37th percentile in New York and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
25 other systems share Suffolk County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ocean Beach Water District. 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 |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | 3,500 | 2.7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ocean Beach, 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 Ocean Beach Water District 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.