Willard Drug Treatment Center, NY
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.15 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Willard Drug Treatment Center
Willard Drug Treatment Center serves about 50 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws surface water, in Seneca County, New York. EPA system ID: NY4910589; phone on file: 607-869-5111. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 8.55 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Willard Drug Treatment Center is 10.15 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 10.15 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.5 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. Willard Drug Treatment Center's 10.15 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in New York and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
25 other systems share Seneca County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Willard Drug Treatment Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Seneca Falls | 9,400 | 2 ppb |
| Waterloo Village | 7,000 | 9.6 ppb |
| Seneca County Water District #1 | 1,820 | 8.3 ppb |
| Border City Water District | 1,600 | 8.3 ppb |
| Ovid Village | 990 | 5.7 ppb |
| Interlaken Village | 650 | 3 ppb |
| Cayuga Lake Water District # 3 | 432 | 1 ppb |
| Junius Water District #1 | 400 | 8.3 ppb |
| Willard Water District | 372 | 10.15 ppb |
| Seneca Lake Water District #1 | 333 | 8.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; 6600 State Route 96, 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 Willard Drug Treatment Center 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.