Yonkers City, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.14 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Yonkers City serves about 211,569 people through 30,000 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Westchester County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5903465; phone on file: 914-377-6270. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.88 ppb from 4.26 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Yonkers City is 7.14 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7.14 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.26 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.71 ppb |
| 2017 | 6.85 ppb |
How Yonkers City 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. Yonkers City's 7.14 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in New York and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
89 other systems share Westchester County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Yonkers City. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-1 | 146,732 | 12.2 ppb |
| Mount Vernon Water Department | 73,893 | 7.12 ppb |
| Westchester Joint Water Works | 59,629 | 3 ppb |
| White Plains City | 59,559 | 1.25 ppb |
| Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-2 | 57,301 | 2 ppb |
| Greenburgh Consolidated Wd #1 | 43,312 | 1.29 ppb |
| Yorktown Consold. Water Dist.#1 | 36,000 | 1.2 ppb |
| Ossining Water Department | 30,000 | 3 ppb |
| Cortlandt Consolidated Wd | 28,369 | 1.4 ppb |
| Peekskill City | 24,272 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Yonkers, 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 Yonkers City 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.