Upper Jay Wd, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2020). 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 Upper Jay Wd
Upper Jay Wd serves about 234 people through 111 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 Essex County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1500294; phone on file: 518-647-2204. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Upper Jay Wd is 0.6 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0.6 ppb |
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. Upper Jay Wd's 0.6 ppb sits at the 21st percentile in New York and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Essex County
32 other systems share Essex County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Upper Jay Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Placid V | 5,000 | 2.2 ppb |
| Ticonderoga Wd | 3,700 | 2.1 ppb |
| Moriah Wd | 3,100 | 1.1 ppb |
| Schroon Lake Wd | 2,750 | 1.5 ppb |
| Adirondack Correctional Facility | 2,400 | 3.85 ppb |
| Chesterfield Wd | 2,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Henry Wd | 1,831 | 1.2 ppb |
| Willsboro Wd | 1,571 | 2.4 ppb |
| Bloomingdale Wd | 980 | 1.3 ppb |
| Crown Point Wd | 980 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ausable Forks, 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 Upper Jay Wd 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.