Star Lake Water District, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Star Lake Water District at a glance
Star Lake Water District serves about 1,250 people through 575 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 St. Lawrence County, New York. EPA system ID: NY4404398; phone on file: 315-848-3121. 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 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Star Lake Water District is 19 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 5 ppb |
| 2019 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 4.8 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. Star Lake Water District's 2 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in New York and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in St. Lawrence County
38 other systems share St. Lawrence County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Star Lake Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Massena Village | 16,729 | 1.5 ppb |
| Ogdensburg City | 10,064 | 1.4 ppb |
| Potsdam Village | 8,312 | 7.8 ppb |
| Canton Village | 7,055 | 2.8 ppb |
| Gouverneur | 4,263 | 2.25 ppb |
| East Louisville Water District | 3,235 | 1.1 ppb |
| Norfolk Water District | 2,300 | 1 ppb |
| Norwood | 1,685 | 1 ppb |
| Waddington Village | 944 | 4.3 ppb |
| Colton Water District | 850 | 2.55 ppb |
Next steps for Star Lake, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Star Lake, 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 Star Lake 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.