Valley Estates, NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2015-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Valley Estates at a glance
Valley Estates serves about 66 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fulton County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1710676; phone on file: 774-253-9442. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Valley Estates's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley Estates is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Valley Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in New York and the 6th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Fulton County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Valley Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gloversville (C) Water Works | 17,991 | 7.9 ppb |
| Johnstown (C) Water Works | 8,154 | 2.5 ppb |
| Broadalbin (V) | 1,500 | 2.3 ppb |
| Northville (V) Water Wks. | 1,180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northampton (T) Water District | 1,000 | 0.6 ppb |
| Mayfield (V) Water Works | 850 | 1.5 ppb |
| Hale Creek Asacta Center | 610 | - |
| Paradise Pines Mhp | 350 | 1.4 ppb |
| Indian Village | 145 | 3 ppb |
| Aspen Hills Water District | 140 | - |
Your move
Look up your address in Valley Estates's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Valley Estates 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.