Ray Brook Wd, NY
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 33 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Ray Brook Wd
Ray Brook Wd serves about 400 people through 80 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Essex County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1500291; phone on file: 518-523-2141. 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 up 27.95 ppb from 5.05 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ray Brook Wd is 33 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 5.05 ppb |
| 2019 | 7.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 11.8 ppb over 10 |
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. Ray Brook Wd's 33 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in New York and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
32 other systems share Essex County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ray Brook Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Placid V | 5,000 | 2.2 ppb |
| Ticonderoga Wd | 3,700 | 2.1 ppb |
| Moriah Wd | 3,100 | 1.1 ppb |
| Schroon Lake Wd | 2,750 | 1.5 ppb |
| Adirondack Correctional Facility | 2,400 | 3.85 ppb |
| Chesterfield Wd | 2,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Henry Wd | 1,831 | 1.2 ppb |
| Willsboro Wd | 1,571 | 2.4 ppb |
| Bloomingdale Wd | 980 | 1.3 ppb |
| Crown Point Wd | 980 | 3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Ray Brook Wd 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.