Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-2, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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 Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-2
Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-2 serves about 57,301 people through 12,053 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Westchester County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5903456; phone on file: 845-620-3345. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-2 is 9.6 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 9.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.01 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. Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-2's 2 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in New York and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
89 other systems share Westchester County; 32 of them have a higher latest lead result than Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Yonkers City | 211,569 | 7.14 ppb |
| Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-1 | 146,732 | 12.2 ppb |
| Mount Vernon Water Department | 73,893 | 7.12 ppb |
| Westchester Joint Water Works | 59,629 | 3 ppb |
| White Plains City | 59,559 | 1.25 ppb |
| Greenburgh Consolidated Wd #1 | 43,312 | 1.29 ppb |
| Yorktown Consold. Water Dist.#1 | 36,000 | 1.2 ppb |
| Ossining Water Department | 30,000 | 3 ppb |
| Cortlandt Consolidated Wd | 28,369 | 1.4 ppb |
| Peekskill City | 24,272 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; West Nyack, 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 Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-2 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.