Otsego County, NY
drinking water quality
60,524 residents · 190 public water systems · 35 ZIP codes
EPA sampled 3 of 190 public water systems here, together serving about 17,330 people. Last sampled 9/19/2023.
Health-based violations
Separately from PFAS, EPA records 17 health-based violations across 13 of the county’s water systems since 2020, the most recent in 2025. They involved nitrate, trihalomethanes, haloacetic acids, contaminant 0400, contaminant 0200, contaminant 1032.
What this means
PFAS are industrial chemicals that EPA describes as breaking down only very slowly in the environment. In April 2024 EPA set the first enforceable national limits: 4 ng/L for PFOA and PFOS, 10 ng/L for PFHxS, PFNA and GenX.
These figures are county-level and come from EPA’s sampling of public water systems. They describe the worst result found in the county, not what comes out of any particular tap — that depends on which system serves the address, and on the plumbing in the building. A private well is not covered by this programme at all.
ZIP codes in Otsego County
12064 · 12116 · 12155 · 12197 · 13315 · 13320 · 13326 · 13333 · 13335 · 13337 · 13342 · 13348 · 13411 · 13415 · 13439 · 13450 · 13457 · 13468 · 13482 · 13488 · 13491 · 13747 · 13776 · 13796 · 13807 · 13808 · 13809 · 13810 · 13820 · 13825 · 13834 · 13843 · 13849 · 13859 · 13861
Readings are county-level, so every ZIP here shares the figure above. Search your ZIP on the map to see it in context.