Applewood, ME
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Applewood at a glance
Applewood serves about 55 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in York County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0092367; phone on file: 207-245-3252. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Applewood's lead record
That is down 8.7 ppb from 8.7 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Applewood is 11 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 8.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 8 ppb |
| 2018 | 8 ppb |
| 2016 | 11 ppb over 10 |
Where this result ranks
Of the 358 Maine systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.5 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 40 have gone over at some point. Applewood's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Maine and the 4th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in York County
34 other systems share York County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Applewood. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Maine Water Company Biddeford Saco Div | 42,508 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Wd | 35,663 | 1 ppb |
| Kittery Water District | 14,478 | 2 ppb |
| Sanford Water District | 14,328 | 4 ppb |
| York Water District | 13,675 | 2 ppb |
| South Berwick Water District | 3,722 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Arrowhead Community Inc | 3,500 | 2 ppb |
| Berwick Water Department | 2,845 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Berwick Water District | 2,125 | 4 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Kezar Falls Division | 1,115 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Portland, ME
Look up your address in Applewood's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Applewood whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.