Scotia Village Water Works, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.46 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Scotia Village Water Works serves about 12,800 people through 3,842 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 Schenectady County, New York. EPA system ID: NY4600071; phone on file: 518-393-2159. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (6.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Scotia Village Water Works is 21.7 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 6.46 ppb |
| 2025 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 9.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 8 ppb |
| 2023 | 8.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 17.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 21.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 11 ppb over 10 |
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. Scotia Village Water Works's 6.46 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in New York and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Schenectady County
10 other systems share Schenectady County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Scotia Village Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Schenectady City Water Works | 62,000 | 3 ppb |
| Rotterdam Wd #5 | 28,000 | 0.83 ppb |
| Niskayuna Consolidated Wd #11 | 22,287 | 3 ppb |
| Glenville Wd #11 | 15,000 | 4.1 ppb |
| Rotterdam Wd #3 | 1,900 | 2 ppb |
| Princetown Water Supply | 900 | 3.35 ppb |
| Delanson Village Water Works | 380 | 3 ppb |
| West Hill Water Company Inc. | 180 | 1 ppb |
| Hillcrest Commons- Frt Section | 64 | 4.5 ppb |
| Hillcrest Commons-Rear Section | 42 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Scotia, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Scotia, 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 Scotia Village Water Works 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.