Wolcott-Butler Csa, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 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. 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.
Wolcott-Butler Csa at a glance
Wolcott-Butler Csa serves about 168 people through 53 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws surface water, in Wayne County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5830007; phone on file: 315-594-2719. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.5 ppb from 1.1 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wolcott-Butler Csa is 2.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.8 ppb |
How Wolcott-Butler Csa 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. Wolcott-Butler Csa's 2.6 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in New York and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Wayne County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wolcott-Butler Csa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Palmyra-Macedon-Walworth Csa | 24,267 | 2.8 ppb |
| Ontario Town Benefit Area #1 | 10,136 | 2.8 ppb |
| Newark Village | 9,142 | 1.8 ppb |
| Sodus-Huron-Wolcott-Butler Csa | 7,746 | 4 ppb |
| Williamson Town Wd | 6,600 | 1.2 ppb |
| Marion-Arcadia-Sodus Csa | 6,303 | 1 ppb |
| Arcadia-Lyons Csa | 5,800 | 1.8 ppb |
| Palmyra Village | 3,580 | 2.2 ppb |
| Clyde Village | 2,269 | 1.3 ppb |
| Wolcott Village | 2,200 | 2.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wolcott, 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 Wolcott-Butler Csa 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.