Phoenix Village, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (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. 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 Phoenix Village
Phoenix Village serves about 2,138 people through 905 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws surface water, in Oswego County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3704363. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Phoenix Village's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Phoenix Village is 2.3 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
Against other New York systems
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. Phoenix Village's 1.2 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in New York and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
40 other systems share Oswego County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Phoenix Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oswego City | 29,400 | 3 ppb |
| Fulton City | 16,600 | 3 ppb |
| Scriba Wd (Oswego) | 9,044 | 2 ppb |
| Richland Town Pws | 3,950 | 1.7 ppb |
| Pulaski Village | 2,398 | 1.1 ppb |
| Mexico Village | 2,100 | 1.2 ppb |
| Hannibal Town Water District #2 | 2,000 | 2 ppb |
| Sandy Creek/Lacona Joint Waterworks | 1,469 | 2.5 ppb |
| Sandy Creek Town Wd #1 & #3 | 1,464 | 1.1 ppb |
| Cleveland Village | 1,463 | 1.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Phoenix, 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 Phoenix 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.