Rockville Centre (V), NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
About Rockville Centre (V)
Rockville Centre (V) serves about 24,700 people through 6,867 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Nassau County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2902848; phone on file: 516-678-9313. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Rockville Centre (V)'s lead record
That is down 1.2 ppb from 2.2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rockville Centre (V) is 6.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.6 ppb |
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. Rockville Centre (V)'s 1 ppb sits at the 38th percentile in New York and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Nassau County
39 other systems share Nassau County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rockville Centre (V). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Liberty Utilities New York - Lynbrook | 220,000 | 5 ppb |
| Liberty Utilities New York - Merrick | 135,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wa Of Western Nassau | 120,000 | 1.4 ppb |
| Town Of Hempstead Water Department | 110,000 | 1 ppb |
| Jericho Wd | 58,000 | 2 ppb |
| Hempstead (V) | 56,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hicksville Wd | 48,000 | 1 ppb |
| Freeport (V) | 45,000 | 3 ppb |
| South Farmingdale Wd | 44,700 | 1 ppb |
| Manhasset Lakeville Wd | 43,000 | 1.6 ppb |
Next steps for Rockville Centre, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rockville Centre, 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 Rockville Centre (V) 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.