Pleasant Villa M.H.P., NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Pleasant Villa M.H.P.
Pleasant Villa M.H.P. serves about 72 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Washington County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5701552; phone on file: 518-638-8681. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 6.8 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pleasant Villa M.H.P. is 19.1 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.75 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 19.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other New York systems
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 Villa M.H.P.'s 8 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in New York and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Washington County
20 other systems share Washington County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pleasant Villa M.H.P.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hudson Falls Village (Queensbury) | 7,000 | 1.2 ppb |
| Kingsbury Wd (Queensbury) | 4,500 | 1.3 ppb |
| Fort Edward Village | 3,300 | 3.3 ppb |
| Cambridge Water Works | 3,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whitehall Village | 2,800 | 5.6 ppb |
| Granville Village | 2,418 | 3.5 ppb |
| Greenwich Village | 1,665 | 3 ppb |
| Washington Correctional | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fort Edward Wd #1 (Qby/Hf) | 1,500 | 1 ppb |
| Salem Water Department | 915 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Gansevoort, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gansevoort, 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 Villa M.H.P. whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1660 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.