Taconic Estates Water District, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.4 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. 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.
Taconic Estates Water District at a glance
Taconic Estates Water District serves about 115 people through 33 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 Dutchess County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1302810; phone on file: 845-221-4303. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Taconic Estates Water District's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (6.37 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Taconic Estates Water District is 21.7 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.37 ppb |
| 2021 | 7.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 21.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 14.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 9.98 ppb |
How Taconic Estates Water District 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. Taconic Estates Water District's 6.4 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in New York and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Dutchess County
147 other systems share Dutchess County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Taconic Estates Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Poughkeepsie Townwide Wd | 43,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Poughkeepsie City | 30,639 | 2.1 ppb |
| Beacon City | 14,370 | 1.78 ppb |
| United Wappinger Water Improvement Dist. | 14,000 | 5 ppb |
| Hyde Park Regional | 6,928 | 0.8 ppb |
| Rhinebeck Village Water | 6,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Wappingers Falls Village | 5,522 | 2.14 ppb |
| Fishkill Village | 4,101 | 2.1 ppb |
| Brinkerhoff Water District | 3,788 | 7.6 ppb |
| Rombout Water District | 3,000 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Hopewell Jctn, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hopewell Jctn, 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 Taconic Estates Water District 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.