Poags Hole Mhp, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2015-2023). 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.
About Poags Hole Mhp
Poags Hole Mhp serves about 25 people through 15 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Livingston County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2512259; phone on file: 585-557-3050. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Poags Hole Mhp's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Poags Hole Mhp is 1 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
How Poags Hole Mhp 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. Poags Hole Mhp's 1 ppb sits at the 25th percentile in New York and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Livingston County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Poags Hole Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lcwsa Consolidated Water District | 9,892 | 9 ppb |
| Dansville Village | 8,900 | 2.8 ppb |
| Geneseo Village | 8,000 | 5.2 ppb |
| Mount Morris Village | 3,500 | 1 ppb |
| Avon Village | 3,000 | 1.8 ppb |
| Avon Town Wd | 3,000 | - |
| Lima Village | 2,900 | 9.02 ppb |
| York Water District | 2,700 | 1.7 ppb |
| Town Of Geneseo | 2,605 | - |
| Caledonia Village | 2,201 | 4.6 ppb |
Next steps for Rochester, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rochester, 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 Poags Hole Mhp 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.