Taconic Shores, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Taconic Shores
Taconic Shores serves about 950 people through 400 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Columbia County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1000237; phone on file: 518-329-0241. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Taconic Shores is 118 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 118 ppb over 15 |
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. Taconic Shores's 1 ppb sits at the 35th percentile in New York and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
42 other systems share Columbia County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Taconic Shores. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hudson City | 6,750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenport Wd No1 | 4,050 | 2.4 ppb |
| Chatham Village | 2,156 | 2.5 ppb |
| Valatie Village | 2,000 | 2 ppb |
| Stockport Wd #2 (Consolidated) | 2,000 | 3.5 ppb |
| Philmont Village | 1,483 | 3 ppb |
| Kinderhook Village | 1,385 | 1 ppb |
| Mount Ida (Greenport) | 485 | 1 ppb |
| Darrow Lakeside Campus | 420 | 6 ppb |
| Grandview Water Works | 325 | 3.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Copake, 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 Shores whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 123000 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.