Pinewoods, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Pinewoods
Pinewoods serves about 161 people through 61 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Chenango County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0800629. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Pinewoods's lead record
That is down 9.2 ppb from 9.8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pinewoods is 9.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 9.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.8 ppb |
How Pinewoods 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. Pinewoods's 0.6 ppb sits at the 21st percentile in New York and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Chenango County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pinewoods. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Norwich City | 8,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greene Village | 1,800 | 2 ppb |
| Oxford Village | 1,738 | 4 ppb |
| Bainbridge Village | 1,550 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sherburne Village | 1,531 | 1 ppb |
| New Berlin Village | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Afton Village | 838 | 0 (not detected) |
| New York State Veterans Home | 504 | 2 ppb |
| Norwich Town Water District #3 | 500 | - |
| Maple Grove West & East Mhp | 416 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Port Crane, 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 Pinewoods 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.