West Canada Creek Village, NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
West Canada Creek Village at a glance
West Canada Creek Village serves about 30 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Oneida County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3290077; phone on file: 347-330-1287. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for West Canada Creek Village is 1.09 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.09 ppb |
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. West Canada Creek Village's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 1st percentile in New York and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Oneida County; 32 of them have a higher latest lead result than West Canada Creek Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mvwa - Mohawk Valley Water Authority | 126,250 | 9 ppb |
| Rome City | 31,795 | 5 ppb |
| Lee Water District | 3,150 | 1 ppb |
| Sherrill - Kenwood Wd | 3,142 | - |
| Clinton Village | 3,000 | 3 ppb |
| Camden Village (Gu) | 2,800 | 1 ppb |
| Sauquoit Consolidated Wd (T/O/Paris) | 2,700 | 2 ppb |
| Hamilton College Wd | 2,672 | 1 ppb |
| Verona Wd (Rte 365 + Hamlet) | 2,345 | - |
| Boonville Village | 2,300 | 4 ppb |
Next steps for Niskayuna, NY
Look up your address in West Canada Creek Village'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 West Canada Creek Village 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.