Pine Hollow Estates, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.68 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. 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.
Pine Hollow Estates at a glance
Pine Hollow Estates serves about 68 people through 25 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ulster County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5530289; phone on file: 518-943-1373. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Pine Hollow Estates's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pine Hollow Estates is 24.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.68 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.65 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 24.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 3 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. Pine Hollow Estates's 1.68 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in New York and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
101 other systems share Ulster County; 48 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pine Hollow Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kingston (City) Water District | 24,000 | 7 ppb |
| New Paltz (Village) Water Dist | 7,523 | 1.97 ppb |
| Ulster Water District | 5,500 | 2.1 ppb |
| Port Ewen Water District | 4,500 | 3.7 ppb |
| Ellenville (Village) Water Dis | 4,300 | 8.6 ppb |
| Saugerties (Village) Water Dis | 4,200 | 1.4 ppb |
| Glasco Water District | 4,071 | 1.4 ppb |
| Highland Water District | 4,000 | 5.94 ppb |
| Marlborough Water District | 3,248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastern/Ulster Correctional Fa | 2,578 | 1.63 ppb |
Next steps for Catskill, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Catskill, 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 Pine Hollow Estates 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.