Watson Town Wd 4, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Watson Town Wd 4
Watson Town Wd 4 serves about 300 people through 237 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lewis County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2430145; phone on file: 315-376-3866. 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 2023 (2.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Watson Town Wd 4 is 14.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 14.3 ppb over 10 |
How Watson Town Wd 4 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. Watson Town Wd 4's 2.1 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in New York and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lewis County
14 other systems share Lewis County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Watson Town Wd 4. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lowville Village | 4,000 | 0.5 ppb |
| Croghan Village | 900 | 1.1 ppb |
| Copenhagen Village | 850 | 4.5 ppb |
| Lyons Falls Village | 850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Leyden Village | 820 | 9.5 ppb |
| Beaver Falls Water District | 782 | - |
| Harrisville (Diana Wd 1) | 700 | 5.5 ppb |
| Turin Village | 350 | 4.5 ppb |
| Lowville (T) Wd #1 | 350 | - |
| Denmark Wd 1 | 350 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lowville, 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 Watson Town Wd 4 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1708 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. 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.