Parishville Water District #1, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.58 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Parishville Water District #1
Parishville Water District #1 serves about 450 people through 200 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in St. Lawrence County, New York. EPA system ID: NY4404395; phone on file: 315-265-2131. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Parishville Water District #1's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (3.05 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Parishville Water District #1 is 14.9 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.58 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.05 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 14.9 ppb over 10 |
How Parishville Water District #1 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. Parishville Water District #1's 2.58 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in New York and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
38 other systems share St. Lawrence County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Parishville Water District #1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Massena Village | 16,729 | 1.5 ppb |
| Ogdensburg City | 10,064 | 1.4 ppb |
| Potsdam Village | 8,312 | 7.8 ppb |
| Canton Village | 7,055 | 2.8 ppb |
| Gouverneur | 4,263 | 2.25 ppb |
| East Louisville Water District | 3,235 | 1.1 ppb |
| Norfolk Water District | 2,300 | 1 ppb |
| Norwood | 1,685 | 1 ppb |
| Star Lake Water District | 1,250 | 2 ppb |
| Waddington Village | 944 | 4.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Parishville, 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 Parishville Water District #1 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1350 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.