Suburbans Community Mhp, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Suburbans Community Mhp
Suburbans Community Mhp serves about 655 people through 219 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Madison County, New York. EPA system ID: OH4901612. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Suburbans Community Mhp's lead record
That is up 1.3 ppb from 0.4 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Suburbans Community Mhp is 2.5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Suburbans Community Mhp's 1.7 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in New York and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
23 other systems share Madison County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Suburbans Community Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oneida City | 11,393 | 1 ppb |
| Hamilton Village | 4,107 | 3 ppb |
| Cazenovia Village | 2,900 | 5 ppb |
| Morrisville State College | 2,620 | 2.9 ppb |
| Morrisville Village | 2,199 | 5 ppb |
| Stockbridge Water District | 600 | - |
| Cazenovia/Nelson Purchase District | 595 | - |
| Deruyter Village | 558 | 1.1 ppb |
| Earlville Village | 545 | 3.3 ppb |
| New Woodstock | 460 | 1.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New York, 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 Suburbans Community Mhp 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.