Shady Lane Park, Inc., NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.5 ppb (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. 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
Shady Lane Park, Inc. serves about 80 people through 48 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Montgomery County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2801596; phone on file: 518-209-1512. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shady Lane Park, Inc. is 4.5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.5 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. Shady Lane Park, Inc.'s 4.5 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in New York and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Montgomery County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shady Lane Park, Inc.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam (C) | 20,700 | 13.9 ppb |
| Amsterdam (T) | 3,000 | - |
| Canajoharie (V) Water Works | 2,300 | 2.2 ppb |
| Fort Plain (V) Water Works | 2,250 | 2 ppb |
| St. Johnsville Village Water Works | 1,700 | 2.5 ppb |
| Fonda (V) Water Works | 1,080 | 7.6 ppb |
| Palatine Bridge (V) Water Works | 900 | 2.1 ppb |
| Fultonville Village Pws | 740 | 1.39 ppb |
| Nelliston (V) Water Works | 535 | - |
| Florida (T) Water District | 432 | - |
Next steps for Guilderland, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Guilderland, 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 Shady Lane Park, Inc. 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.