Waccabuc Farms Inc., CT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Waccabuc Farms Inc. serves about 26 people through 15 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Westchester County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: NY5903769; phone on file: 914-960-1061. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Waccabuc Farms Inc. is 29 ppb across 16 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.13 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 29 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 24 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.57 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 493 Connecticut systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.8 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 49 have gone over at some point. Waccabuc Farms Inc.'s 1 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Connecticut and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
1 other system shares Westchester County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Waccabuc Farms Inc.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Meadows At Cross River | 630 | 4 ppb |
Next steps for Westport, CT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Westport, CT 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 Waccabuc Farms Inc. 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.