Pinewood Acres Water District, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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 Pinewood Acres Water District
Pinewood Acres Water District serves about 410 people through 65 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 Steuben County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5001211; phone on file: 607-936-8287. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Pinewood Acres Water District's lead record
That is up 1.27 ppb from 1.33 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pinewood Acres Water District is 4.1 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.33 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 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. Pinewood Acres Water District's 2.6 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in New York and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
51 other systems share Steuben County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pinewood Acres Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Corning City | 10,300 | 6.1 ppb |
| Hornell City | 8,100 | 1.4 ppb |
| Bath Village Consolidated Sampling Area | 5,400 | 3.1 ppb |
| Morningside Heights Wd / Erwin (T) | 4,570 | 5 ppb |
| Canisteo Village | 2,100 | 2.6 ppb |
| Addison Village | 1,850 | 3.53 ppb |
| Painted Post Village | 1,750 | 2 ppb |
| Wayland Village | 1,730 | 1.7 ppb |
| South Corning Village | 1,400 | 2 ppb |
| East Corning Consolidated District | 1,150 | 2.5 ppb |
Next steps for Corning, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Corning, 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 Pinewood Acres Water District whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1600 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.