Stamford Village, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Stamford Village
Stamford Village serves about 1,280 people through 440 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Delaware County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1200272; phone on file: 607-652-6671. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stamford Village is 5 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 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. Stamford Village's 1.8 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in New York and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Delaware County
31 other systems share Delaware County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stamford Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Delhi Village | 3,833 | 8.8 ppb |
| Sidney Village | 3,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walton Village | 3,010 | 0.7 ppb |
| Hancock Village | 1,182 | 3 ppb |
| Hobart Village | 700 | 3 ppb |
| Margaretville Village | 650 | 1.5 ppb |
| Downsville Water District | 617 | 1.5 ppb |
| Davenport Water District | 600 | 2.4 ppb |
| Roxbury Water District | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Franklin Village | 481 | 1.5 ppb |
Next steps for Stamford, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stamford, 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 Stamford Village whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2580 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.