Orleans Town Wd 2 (Rt 12), NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Orleans Town Wd 2 (Rt 12) at a glance
Orleans Town Wd 2 (Rt 12) serves about 690 people through 275 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Jefferson County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2230132; phone on file: 315-658-4411. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.5 ppb from 2.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orleans Town Wd 2 (Rt 12) is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
How Orleans Town Wd 2 (Rt 12) 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. Orleans Town Wd 2 (Rt 12)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in New York and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Jefferson County
56 other systems share Jefferson County; 30 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orleans Town Wd 2 (Rt 12). 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 |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Orleans Town Wd 2 (Rt 12)'s service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Orleans Town Wd 2 (Rt 12) 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.