Valley Dale Water Co, NY
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 49 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Valley Dale Water Co at a glance
Valley Dale Water Co serves about 500 people through 164 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws surface water, in Dutchess County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1302813; phone on file: 845-486-6509. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Valley Dale Water Co's lead record
That is up 43.8 ppb from 5.2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley Dale Water Co is 49 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 49 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 8.3 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. Valley Dale Water Co's 49 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in New York and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Dutchess County
147 other systems share Dutchess County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Valley Dale Water Co. 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 |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Valley Dale Water Co 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.