Ovid Village, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.7 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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
Ovid Village serves about 990 people through 321 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 Seneca County, New York. EPA system ID: NY4901195. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Ovid Village's lead record
That is down 2.5 ppb from 8.2 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ovid Village is 55 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 55 ppb over 15 |
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. Ovid Village's 5.7 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in New York and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
25 other systems share Seneca County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ovid Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Seneca Falls | 9,400 | 2 ppb |
| Waterloo Village | 7,000 | 9.6 ppb |
| Seneca County Water District #1 | 1,820 | 8.3 ppb |
| Border City Water District | 1,600 | 8.3 ppb |
| Interlaken Village | 650 | 3 ppb |
| Cayuga Lake Water District # 3 | 432 | 1 ppb |
| Junius Water District #1 | 400 | 8.3 ppb |
| Willard Water District | 372 | 10.15 ppb |
| Seneca Lake Water District #1 | 333 | 8.3 ppb |
| Town Of Waterloo Water District | 250 | 8.3 ppb |
Next steps for Ovid, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ovid, 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 Ovid Village 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.