Skaneateles Wds, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Skaneateles Wds at a glance
Skaneateles Wds serves about 3,500 people through 984 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Onondaga County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3304347; phone on file: 315-685-6726. 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 2020 (3.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Skaneateles Wds is 3.7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.13 ppb |
How Skaneateles Wds compares
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. Skaneateles Wds's 3 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in New York and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
23 other systems share Onondaga County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Skaneateles Wds. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ocwa | 350,000 | 8 ppb |
| Syracuse City | 192,000 | 12 ppb |
| Dewitt Wds - South | 16,200 | 3 ppb |
| Clay Wds | 16,000 | 4 ppb |
| Dewitt Wds - North | 13,600 | 3 ppb |
| Baldwinsville Village | 9,200 | 4 ppb |
| Skaneateles Village | 2,610 | 3 ppb |
| Elbridge Village | 1,519 | 4 ppb |
| Jordan Village | 1,400 | 4 ppb |
| Tully Village | 930 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Skaneateles, 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 Skaneateles Wds 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.