Shepherds Run, NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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
Shepherds Run serves about 150 people through 38 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Greene County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1916986; phone on file: 917-533-7552. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.9 ppb from 2.9 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shepherds Run is 2.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.1 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. Shepherds Run's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 9th percentile in New York and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Greene County
33 other systems share Greene County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shepherds Run. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Catskill Village | 8,000 | 6.3 ppb |
| Coxsackie Village | 4,010 | 1 ppb |
| Coxsackie Correctional Facility | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co. | 2,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Athens Village | 1,700 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cairo Water District | 1,400 | 3 ppb |
| Greenville Water District No 1 | 1,100 | 3 ppb |
| Hunter Village | 1,030 | 11.2 ppb |
| Ski Windham | 856 | 3 ppb |
| Tannersville Village | 629 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Shepherds Run'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 Shepherds Run 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.