Ocwa Skyridge Community Wd, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.9 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Ocwa Skyridge Community Wd at a glance
Ocwa Skyridge Community Wd serves about 50 people through 28 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Onondaga County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3304337; phone on file: 315-455-7061. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.2 ppb from 8.1 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ocwa Skyridge Community Wd is 40.9 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 8.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 9.85 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.45 ppb |
| 2018 | 13.95 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 10.81 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 40.9 ppb over 15 |
How Ocwa Skyridge Community 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. Ocwa Skyridge Community Wd's 5.9 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in New York and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Onondaga County
23 other systems share Onondaga County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ocwa Skyridge Community Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ocwa | 350,000 | 8 ppb |
| Syracuse City | 192,000 | 12 ppb |
| Dewitt Wds - South | 16,200 | 3 ppb |
| Clay Wds | 16,000 | 4 ppb |
| Dewitt Wds - North | 13,600 | 3 ppb |
| Baldwinsville Village | 9,200 | 4 ppb |
| Skaneateles Wds | 3,500 | 3 ppb |
| Skaneateles Village | 2,610 | 3 ppb |
| Elbridge Village | 1,519 | 4 ppb |
| Jordan Village | 1,400 | 4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Syracuse, 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 Ocwa Skyridge Community 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.