Valatie Village, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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
Valatie Village serves about 2,000 people through 650 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Columbia County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1000244; phone on file: 518-758-9806. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valatie Village is 5 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
How Valatie Village 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. Valatie Village's 2 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in New York and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Columbia County
42 other systems share Columbia County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Valatie Village. 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 |
| Stockport Wd #2 (Consolidated) | 2,000 | 3.5 ppb |
| Philmont Village | 1,483 | 3 ppb |
| Kinderhook Village | 1,385 | 1 ppb |
| Taconic Shores | 950 | 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; Valatie, 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 Valatie Village whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2420 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. 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.