Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co., NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co. at a glance
Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co. serves about 2,000 people through 660 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Greene County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1915264; phone on file: 518-731-8484. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co. is 3.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.6 ppb |
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. Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co.'s 1.1 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in New York and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Greene County
33 other systems share Greene County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co.. 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) |
| 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 |
| Windham Mountain Village | 545 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Athens, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Athens, 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 Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co. 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.