Pleasant Valley Estates, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.5 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.
Pleasant Valley Estates at a glance
Pleasant Valley Estates serves about 100 people through 48 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Dutchess County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1320272; phone on file: 203-324-1163. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 6.5 ppb from 11 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pleasant Valley Estates is 11 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 2.8 ppb |
How Pleasant Valley 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. Pleasant Valley Estates's 4.5 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in New York and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
147 other systems share Dutchess County; 29 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pleasant Valley 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 |
Next steps for Brooklyn, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brooklyn, 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 Pleasant Valley 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.