Yorktown Consold. Water Dist.#1, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Yorktown Consold. Water Dist.#1 at a glance
Yorktown Consold. Water Dist.#1 serves about 36,000 people through 10,000 service connections, which makes it a 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: NY5903469; phone on file: 914-962-5722. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Yorktown Consold. Water Dist.#1 is 2.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.2 ppb |
How Yorktown Consold. Water Dist.#1 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. Yorktown Consold. Water Dist.#1's 1.2 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in New York and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
89 other systems share Westchester County; 46 of them have a higher latest lead result than Yorktown Consold. Water Dist.#1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Yonkers City | 211,569 | 7.14 ppb |
| 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 |
| Ossining Water Department | 30,000 | 3 ppb |
| Cortlandt Consolidated Wd | 28,369 | 1.4 ppb |
| Peekskill City | 24,272 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Yorktown Heights, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Yorktown Heights, 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 Yorktown Consold. Water Dist.#1 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.