City and town drinking water records

Water systems serving Ithaca, NY

2 community water systems have a mapped service area in Ithaca, NY. Ithaca City covers 83% of the area inside Ithaca's Census boundary and reports serving 29,457 people in all.

1 of them had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. None of those systems has one still unresolved.

2 rely mainly on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 435 lead lines, 298 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 637 lines of unknown material.

3 more systems are placed in Ithaca by EPA's town record because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems

2

Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years

1

Systems with one unresolved

0

Lead service lines in inventories

435

Water systems serving Ithaca

2 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System	Area	People served	Main source	Health-based violations, 10 years	Unresolved	Lead lines
Ithaca City	Covers 83% of Ithaca	29,457	Surface water	2	0	435
Cornell University	Covers 10% of Ithaca	31,581	Surface water	0	0	0

Systems placed by EPA's town record in Ithaca

3 systems

EPA has no service area map for some of these systems, and the maps it has for the others do not line up with their own records. They are placed by EPA's town record (EPA lists them serving this town), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System	Area	People served	Main source	Health-based violations, 10 years	Unresolved	Lead lines
Ithaca Town WD	Town on record	13,000	Purchased surface water	0	0	3
Cayuga Heights Village	Town on record	3,170	Purchased surface water	0	0	26
Lansing (V)	Town on record	3,100	Purchased surface water	0	0	0

Other cities and towns in Tompkins County

15 places

• Cayuga Heights
• Dryden
• East Ithaca
• Forest Home
• Freeville
• Groton
• Lansing
• McLean
• Newfield
• Northeast Ithaca
• Northwest Ithaca
• South Hill
• South Lansing
• Trumansburg
• West Danby

Back to Tompkins County, NY

Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations