Stone Hedge, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.14 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
Stone Hedge serves about 134 people through 42 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 Orange County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3503614; phone on file: 845-294-6033. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Stone Hedge's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (2.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stone Hedge is 5.59 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.14 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.59 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.93 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. Stone Hedge's 3.14 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in New York and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
129 other systems share Orange County; 32 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stone Hedge. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kiryas Joel | 51,623 | 9 ppb |
| Middletown City | 30,000 | 1 ppb |
| Newburgh City | 29,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Windsor Consolidated Wd | 25,667 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newburgh Consolidated Wd | 22,282 | 1.5 ppb |
| Wallkill Consolidated Wd | 18,450 | 1.97 ppb |
| Monroe Village | 12,000 | 3 ppb |
| Woodbury Cons. W.D. | 10,845 | 8.5 ppb |
| Cornwall-On-Hudson | 9,700 | 1 ppb |
| Port Jervis City | 9,000 | 3.04 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Goshen, 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 Stone Hedge 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.