Streamside Estates, NY
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13.1 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Streamside Estates
Streamside Estates serves about 67 people through 21 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Ulster County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5521949; phone on file: 914-260-9919. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 9.45 ppb from 3.65 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Streamside Estates is 13.1 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 13.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2025 | 3.65 ppb |
| 2025 | 5.32 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2023 | 8.51 ppb |
| 2023 | 8.14 ppb |
| 2022 | 9.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 9.04 ppb |
| 2021 | 6.72 ppb |
| 2018 | 13 ppb over 10 |
How Streamside Estates 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. Streamside Estates's 13.1 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in New York and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
101 other systems share Ulster County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Streamside Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kingston (City) Water District | 24,000 | 7 ppb |
| New Paltz (Village) Water Dist | 7,523 | 1.97 ppb |
| Ulster Water District | 5,500 | 2.1 ppb |
| Port Ewen Water District | 4,500 | 3.7 ppb |
| Ellenville (Village) Water Dis | 4,300 | 8.6 ppb |
| Saugerties (Village) Water Dis | 4,200 | 1.4 ppb |
| Glasco Water District | 4,071 | 1.4 ppb |
| Highland Water District | 4,000 | 5.94 ppb |
| Marlborough Water District | 3,248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastern/Ulster Correctional Fa | 2,578 | 1.63 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Yorktown Heights, 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 Streamside Estates whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1884.5 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.