Ripley Water District, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Ripley Water District
Ripley Water District serves about 1,600 people through 548 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Chautauqua County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0600372; phone on file: 716-736-2201. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 3.42 ppb from 3.68 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ripley Water District is 16 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.68 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.47 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.23 ppb |
| 2021 | 6.54 ppb |
| 2020 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 9.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 12.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 13.7 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. Ripley Water District's 7.1 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in New York and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
49 other systems share Chautauqua County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ripley Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jamestown Bpu | 46,712 | 3.2 ppb |
| Dunkirk City | 12,743 | 9.7 ppb |
| Fredonia Village | 9,585 | 6.1 ppb |
| Chautauqua Utility District | 9,000 | 7.6 ppb |
| Westfield Village And Town | 3,890 | 1 ppb |
| Silver Creek Village | 3,100 | 0.27 ppb |
| North Chautauqua County Water District | 3,100 | 1.9 ppb |
| Brocton Portland Water District | 3,086 | 8.7 ppb |
| Carroll (T) Water District | 2,600 | 2.18 ppb |
| Hanover Wd #1 5&20 Slvr Crk To Catt Crk | 2,173 | 4.07 ppb |
Next steps for Ripley, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ripley, 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 Ripley Water District whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2090 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.