Pawling Wd #2, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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
Pawling Wd #2 serves about 200 people through 59 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 Dutchess County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1314504; phone on file: 845-855-4464. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.3 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pawling Wd #2 is 6 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
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. Pawling Wd #2's 2.7 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in New York and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
147 other systems share Dutchess County; 49 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pawling Wd #2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Poughkeepsie Townwide Wd | 43,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Poughkeepsie City | 30,639 | 2.1 ppb |
| Beacon City | 14,370 | 1.78 ppb |
| United Wappinger Water Improvement Dist. | 14,000 | 5 ppb |
| Hyde Park Regional | 6,928 | 0.8 ppb |
| Rhinebeck Village Water | 6,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Wappingers Falls Village | 5,522 | 2.14 ppb |
| Fishkill Village | 4,101 | 2.1 ppb |
| Brinkerhoff Water District | 3,788 | 7.6 ppb |
| Rombout Water District | 3,000 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Pawling, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pawling, 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 Pawling Wd #2 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.