Onondaga County

Plumbing in Clay, a Town With No Confirmed Lead Line

Clay is one of the few places in Onondaga County where the lead question already has an answer, which frees you to spend attention on the real issue. The state inventory records no confirmed lead service line anywhere in the town, and 593 galvanized lines needing replacement, almost all of them on the homeowner's side.

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54 inMinimum cover Onondaga County sets for a home's water service line

17,239Syracuse service lines recorded as lead, out of 38,601

Nov 1, 2027Federal lead action level drops from 15 ppb to 10 ppb

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If the honest answer is to run a cold tap for a quarter of an hour, or to call the Water Department first because the leak looks like theirs, that is what you get told on the call.

Required: your name, a phone number, an email address, the property address and its ZIP code. The message box and the questions above it are optional. The street line is asked for last because it is the hardest field to hand over, and it is asked for at all because a contractor is matched to a property rather than to a person: a ZIP code narrows it to a town, and a street line says which house, which water purveyor serves it and which side of the city line it sits on.

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What a published zero means for a Clay address

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The New York State Lead Service Line Inventory records 13,573 service lines under the locality Town of Clay with zero confirmed lead service lines, 593 galvanized requiring replacement, 8,482 non lead and 4,498 unknown. In 585 of the 593 galvanized records the public side is already copper. A further 5,615 records under the locality CLAY are all classified non lead.

Source: New York State Department of Health, accessed 2026-09-13

American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five year estimates give the town of Clay a median year of construction of 1978 across 26,282 housing units, the largest housing stock of any town in Onondaga County. Only 831 units, 3.2 percent, were built in 1939 or earlier, the lowest pre 1940 share in the metro, and 14,459, or 55.0 percent, were built before 1980. Within the town, the Radisson community has a median year of construction of 1990.

Source: US Census Bureau, accessed 2026-09-13

OCWA's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report states that the hardness of its water ranges from 115 to 190 parts per million, equal to about 6 to 11 grains per gallon, which it describes as moderately hard, and that the pH runs from 7.1 to 8.7 with alkalinity from 95 to 140 milligrams per liter as calcium carbonate. It adds that softening does not improve the sanitary quality of water, that softeners mostly remove calcium carbonate and stop spotting and scaling, and that softeners may increase water usage because it takes more soft water to rinse away soap.

Source: Onondaga County Water Authority, accessed 2026-09-13

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Describe what the water or the heater is doing. In a town with no confirmed lead, the answer is usually something ordinary and findable.

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What replaces the lead question in Clay

Start with what Clay does not have. On the state inventory the town records zero confirmed lead service lines across 13,573 lines, with a further 5,615 records under a second Clay locality all classified non lead. That is a publishable negative and it is worth saying plainly rather than hedging it. What Clay does have is 593 galvanized lines requiring replacement, and in 585 of them the public half is already copper, so the conversation here is pressure and rust on the customer side. The housing stock is the newest large one in the metro: a median build year of 1978 across 26,282 units, only 3.2 percent built before 1940, and Radisson at a median of 1990. That moves the agenda to the things that age together in a 1970s or 1980s house, which is original supply valves, hose bibs and a water heater now on its second or third replacement. OCWA rates its water at 115 to 190 parts per million hardness, six to eleven grains a gallon, enough to scale a tank over years and not enough to make a softener a health purchase. The authority says that itself, which is useful to have in mind if a softener appears on a water heater quote.

Areas within Clay: Radisson

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Plumbing work we arrange across the town of Clay

Water Service Line Repair and Replacement

Find out whether the pipe carrying water into your house has failed, which side of the curb stop it failed on, and what replacing your half of it actually involves here.

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Water Heater Repair and Replacement

Decide whether the heater in your basement is worth repairing or has reached the end, and understand what a compliant replacement includes in this county.

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Leak Detection and Burst Pipe Repair

Find water that is escaping where you cannot see it, or stop a pipe that has already burst, and understand what made it happen here.

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Fixture, Faucet and Valve Repair

Get a dripping faucet, a running toilet or a seized shutoff dealt with, and know which of them you could reasonably do yourself.

Fixtures and Valves in Clay →

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Tell us what changed in your Clay house

Pressure, rust, a heater making new noises: describe it and there is no obligation either way.

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