Taberg / Limited Secure, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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
Taberg / Limited Secure serves about 115 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Oneida County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3210747. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is up 2 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Taberg / Limited Secure is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.75 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 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. Taberg / Limited Secure's 3 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in New York and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
42 other systems share Oneida County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Taberg / Limited Secure. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mvwa - Mohawk Valley Water Authority | 126,250 | 9 ppb |
| Rome City | 31,795 | 5 ppb |
| Lee Water District | 3,150 | 1 ppb |
| Sherrill - Kenwood Wd | 3,142 | - |
| Clinton Village | 3,000 | 3 ppb |
| Camden Village (Gu) | 2,800 | 1 ppb |
| Sauquoit Consolidated Wd (T/O/Paris) | 2,700 | 2 ppb |
| Hamilton College Wd | 2,672 | 1 ppb |
| Verona Wd (Rte 365 + Hamlet) | 2,345 | - |
| Boonville Village | 2,300 | 4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; your state 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 Taberg / Limited Secure 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.