Sunset Woods, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Sunset Woods serves about 138 people through 47 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ulster County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5501373; phone on file: 845-853-8250. 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 1.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sunset Woods is 22.7 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 22.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 2.45 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.35 ppb |
| 2021 | 8.79 ppb |
| 2020 | 16.76 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 10 ppb |
How Sunset Woods 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. Sunset Woods's 1.2 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in New York and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Ulster County
101 other systems share Ulster County; 65 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sunset Woods. 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 |
Next steps for Kingston, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kingston, 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 Sunset Woods whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1788 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.