Windham Water District, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.2 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. 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.
Windham Water District at a glance
Windham Water District serves about 420 people through 200 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 Greene County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1900032; phone on file: 518-734-4170. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Windham Water District's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (3.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Windham Water District is 3.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.95 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Windham Water District's 3.2 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in New York and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
33 other systems share Greene County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Windham Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Catskill Village | 8,000 | 6.3 ppb |
| Coxsackie Village | 4,010 | 1 ppb |
| Coxsackie Correctional Facility | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co. | 2,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Athens Village | 1,700 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cairo Water District | 1,400 | 3 ppb |
| Greenville Water District No 1 | 1,100 | 3 ppb |
| Hunter Village | 1,030 | 11.2 ppb |
| Ski Windham | 856 | 3 ppb |
| Tannersville Village | 629 | 1.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hensonville, 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 Windham Water District 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.