Route 8 Estates, NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Route 8 Estates serves about 125 people through 69 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Madison County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2630002; phone on file: 315-855-7660. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Route 8 Estates is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other New York systems
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. Route 8 Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in New York and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Madison County
23 other systems share Madison County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Route 8 Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oneida City | 11,393 | 1 ppb |
| Hamilton Village | 4,107 | 3 ppb |
| Cazenovia Village | 2,900 | 5 ppb |
| Morrisville State College | 2,620 | 2.9 ppb |
| Morrisville Village | 2,199 | 5 ppb |
| Suburbans Community Mhp | 655 | 1.7 ppb |
| Stockbridge Water District | 600 | - |
| Cazenovia/Nelson Purchase District | 595 | - |
| Deruyter Village | 558 | 1.1 ppb |
| Earlville Village | 545 | 3.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Route 8 Estates's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Route 8 Estates 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.