Pinebrook Estates, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 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.
About Pinebrook Estates
Pinebrook Estates serves about 400 people through 133 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Dutchess County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1322156; phone on file: 845-486-3624. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Pinebrook Estates's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pinebrook Estates is 30.3 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 8 ppb |
| 2016 | 30.3 ppb over 15 |
How Pinebrook Estates 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. Pinebrook Estates's 0.6 ppb sits at the 21st percentile in New York and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
147 other systems share Dutchess County; 111 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pinebrook Estates. 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Poughkeepsie, 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 Pinebrook Estates whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.