Red Creek North Sa, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 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.
Who runs the water here
Red Creek North Sa serves about 40 people through 12 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Wayne County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5830010; phone on file: 315-986-1929. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (1.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Red Creek North Sa is 3.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.3 ppb |
How Red Creek North Sa 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. Red Creek North Sa's 1.1 ppb sits at the 39th percentile in New York and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Wayne County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Red Creek North Sa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Palmyra-Macedon-Walworth Csa | 24,267 | 2.8 ppb |
| Ontario Town Benefit Area #1 | 10,136 | 2.8 ppb |
| Newark Village | 9,142 | 1.8 ppb |
| Sodus-Huron-Wolcott-Butler Csa | 7,746 | 4 ppb |
| Williamson Town Wd | 6,600 | 1.2 ppb |
| Marion-Arcadia-Sodus Csa | 6,303 | 1 ppb |
| Arcadia-Lyons Csa | 5,800 | 1.8 ppb |
| Palmyra Village | 3,580 | 2.2 ppb |
| Clyde Village | 2,269 | 1.3 ppb |
| Wolcott Village | 2,200 | 2.6 ppb |
Next steps for Walworth, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Walworth, 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 Red Creek North Sa 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.