South Otselic Water District, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (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. 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
South Otselic Water District serves about 300 people through 100 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Chenango County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0801750; phone on file: 315-653-7201. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.8 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Otselic Water District is 3.22 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.22 ppb |
How South Otselic Water District 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. South Otselic Water District's 1 ppb sits at the 32nd percentile in New York and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Chenango County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Otselic Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Norwich City | 8,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greene Village | 1,800 | 2 ppb |
| Oxford Village | 1,738 | 4 ppb |
| Bainbridge Village | 1,550 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sherburne Village | 1,531 | 1 ppb |
| New Berlin Village | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Afton Village | 838 | 0 (not detected) |
| New York State Veterans Home | 504 | 2 ppb |
| Norwich Town Water District #3 | 500 | - |
| Maple Grove West & East Mhp | 416 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; South Otselic, 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 South Otselic Water District 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.