Whitlock Farms, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Whitlock Farms serves about 100 people through 33 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orange County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3503611; phone on file: 516-632-2239. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.6 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Whitlock Farms is 65.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.58 ppb |
| 2018 | 11.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 65.5 ppb over 15 |
How Whitlock Farms 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. Whitlock Farms's 2.6 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in New York and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
129 other systems share Orange County; 41 of them have a higher latest lead result than Whitlock Farms. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kiryas Joel | 51,623 | 9 ppb |
| Middletown City | 30,000 | 1 ppb |
| Newburgh City | 29,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Windsor Consolidated Wd | 25,667 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newburgh Consolidated Wd | 22,282 | 1.5 ppb |
| Wallkill Consolidated Wd | 18,450 | 1.97 ppb |
| Monroe Village | 12,000 | 3 ppb |
| Woodbury Cons. W.D. | 10,845 | 8.5 ppb |
| Cornwall-On-Hudson | 9,700 | 1 ppb |
| Port Jervis City | 9,000 | 3.04 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newburgh, 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 Whitlock Farms whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1615 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.