Nassau · Hicksville
Hicksville pays a district. The town around it is a freeze.
Hicksville is a hamlet in the Town of Oyster Bay. The kitchen is almost always public supply. Reverse osmosis if you want dioxane treated. The freeze-versus-volume story is the town, not this hamlet's well.
Updated 2026-09-11 · Pipedeck · Hicksville, NY
| Hicksville tap | Suffolk private well | |
|---|---|---|
| Usual supply | Nassau district | Well + septic |
| First hop | Filter class | Mail-in lab kit |
A hamlet in a freeze town, on public water
Hicksville sits in the Town of Oyster Bay. That town sat below its 2020 census count, with Glen Cove and Long Beach. Freeze versus volume is the Oyster Bay page. This URL is the hamlet tap. Nassau kitchens almost always pay a district. Nassau has on the order of a few hundred private wells countywide. Skip the well kit unless you can point to a well cap on this lot.
New York's drinking-water line for PFOA and PFOS is 10 parts per trillion. Look for NSF 53, P473, or reverse osmosis — the PFAS page. 1,4-dioxane is reverse osmosis, not a pitcher — the dioxane page. Yale Superfund 2026 found dioxane in about a third of 92 Long Island taps, about a quarter over 1 µg/L. Tap is not blood. Hempstead's 7 of 9 public wells are a Hempstead record. Bethpage's TCE plume is a Bethpage record on Bethpage. Hicksville is next door geographically and still gets its own URL so those site numbers stay put.
Do not mail a Suffolk $100 well test from a Hicksville district kitchen. 631-852-5810 is Suffolk County well testing. This hamlet is Nassau. This site is not that office.
The house still aged. The listing still asks.
Oyster Bay listings have run around $1.1M. Nassau typical values sit near $859k. Prices about ×4 since 1990, pay about ×3. If you are staying, grab bars are aging — Nassau aged first. If you already decided to leave, moving. If grown kids still live here, Nassau's 58 percent of 18-to-34 with a parent is households. Do not hang a well kit on the rent. Publisher: 65 Cedar Street, Kings Park, NY 11754.
Common questions
Is Hicksville on a well?
Almost never. Nassau district. Kit only if you can point to a well.
Is this the Oyster Bay freeze page?
No. Freeze versus volume is /oyster-bay/. This hamlet is the tap.
Can I use Bethpage TCE numbers here?
No. Bethpage keeps that plume. Match a filter class to this kitchen.
Suffolk $100 test?
Wrong county. 631-852-5810 is Suffolk. Hicksville is Nassau.
Pitcher for dioxane?
No. Reverse osmosis is the class.
Census Vintage 2025 freeze town; Nassau well count; NYS MCL 10 ppt; Yale Superfund 2026 n=92; Hempstead 7/9 public-well dioxane record stays labeled Hempstead.