Onondaga County
Plumbing in Camillus Village and the Town Around It
In Camillus the village line matters more than it does almost anywhere else in Onondaga County, and one question settles it. Inside the village 16.3 percent of service lines are galvanized and need replacing, against about 1 percent in the surrounding town, from the same authority and the same lake.
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What separates village Camillus from town Camillus
The New York State Lead Service Line Inventory records 485 service lines under the locality Village of Camillus with 79 galvanized requiring replacement, 3 lead, 262 non lead and 141 unknown, and 9,325 under Town of Camillus with 102 galvanized requiring replacement, 3 lead, 1,882 non lead and 7,338 unknown. At 16.3 percent, the village has one of the highest galvanized rates in the metro, while the surrounding town is at about 1 percent. OCWA's source table gives both the village and the town as Otisco Lake only.
Source: New York State Department of Health, accessed 2026-09-13
American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five year estimates give the Village of Camillus a median year of construction of 1958 with 248 of 771 units, or 32.2 percent, built in 1939 or earlier, while the surrounding town of Camillus has a median of 1966 with only 696 of 11,481 units, or 6.1 percent, built in 1939 or earlier. Within the town, the Fairmount area has a median of 1961 and 5.0 percent pre 1940.
Source: US Census Bureau, accessed 2026-09-13
The City of Syracuse Water Department states that it provides retail water service to the entire City of Syracuse and, through wholesale and other service agreements, also supplies water to individual customers and portions of the towns of DeWitt, Onondaga, Geddes, Camillus and Salina, and supplies source water to the villages of Skaneateles, Jordan and Elbridge. Because the north side of the city is connected to a system supplied by OCWA, that area may receive Lake Ontario water from time to time.
Source: City of Syracuse Department of Water, accessed 2026-09-13
Village of Camillus, or the town around it?
Send the address with a line on what the water is doing. That one distinction changes the likely answer here more than anything else.
Why a Camillus village address behaves nothing like the town
Two Camillus markets sit a mile apart. The Village of Camillus has 485 recorded service lines with 79 galvanized requiring replacement, 16.3 percent of them, while the Town of Camillus has 9,325 records with 102 galvanized, about 1 percent. That is roughly fifteen times the rate inside the village line, on the same OCWA supply from the same lake. The housing explains it: a village median build year of 1958 with 32.2 percent of homes built in 1939 or earlier, against a town median of 1966 with only 6.1 percent pre 1940, and Fairmount at 1961. Advice that fits the village core is wrong in the town, which is why the address does more work here than the symptom does. There is a second check specific to Camillus. The City of Syracuse supplies water to portions of the town under wholesale and service agreements, so not every Camillus address is on OCWA water, and the two purveyors do not draw the ownership line at the curb in the same words. The name on the water bill settles that, not the town line.
Areas within Camillus: Village of Camillus, Fairmount
Plumbing work we arrange in Camillus and Fairmount
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