Val-E-Vue Court, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.74 ppb (monitoring period 2010-2018). 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 Val-E-Vue Court
Val-E-Vue Court serves about 40 people through 28 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Allegany County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0200862. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Val-E-Vue Court is 4.74 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 4.74 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. Val-E-Vue Court's 4.74 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in New York and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Allegany County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Val-E-Vue Court. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wellsville Village Public Water | 5,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alfred State College | 3,600 | 1 ppb |
| Alfred University | 2,800 | 3 ppb |
| Houghton Water District | 2,000 | 2 ppb |
| Cuba Village Public Water | 1,800 | 3.4 ppb |
| Bolivar-Richburg Water System | 1,640 | 1.2 ppb |
| Friendship Town Water District | 1,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alfred Village Water Supply | 1,300 | 3 ppb |
| Andover Village Public Water | 1,130 | 3 ppb |
| Scio Water District | 990 | 1.7 ppb |
Next steps for Belfast, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Belfast, 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 Val-E-Vue Court 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.