Lead Testing in New York School Drinking Water, Compliance Period 2026-2028

Compliance Period 2026-2028 results for lead testing in drinking water, as reported by New York State public schools, charter schools, and BOCES. The dataset is published by health.data.ny.gov and was last updated on May 27, 2026. It contains information on sampling outlets, remediation status, and lead concentration results.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic trends in lead contamination using School City, County Location, and School ZIP Code.
• Track remediation progress over the three-year period using Outlets Sampled 2026-2028 and Remediation Status.
• Identify schools with ongoing issues by filtering on Number of Outlets that Still Require Remediation and Result > 5 ppb.
• Assess compliance completeness by checking Initial Sampling Complete and All Results Received flags.

Strengths

• Mandated reporting under Public Health Law Section 1110 and NYS regulation 10 NYCRR 67-4 provides a legal basis for data collection.
• Contains specific annual sampling counts for 2026, 2027, and 2028, allowing for temporal analysis.
• Includes detailed remediation method columns, such as Remediated with Replacement Aerators and Permanently removed.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality, such as missing value rates, requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

health.data.ny.gov

Collection Method

Reported by NYS public schools, charter schools, and Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) as mandated by law.

Time Range

Compliance Period 2026-2028

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 17:52:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York State, United States