Pinewood Park, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Pinewood Park serves about 108 people through 43 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in York County, New York. EPA system ID: ME0002782; phone on file: 212-951-3812. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pinewood Park is 5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 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 Park's 3 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in New York and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
3 other systems share York County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pinewood Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Adnah Hills Mhp (Sc4660115) | 340 | 3 ppb |
| Blueberry Ridge Mobile Village | 138 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marsh Brook Estates | 70 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Great Neck, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Great Neck, 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 Park 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.