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Barrelville, MD

No lead results on file with EPA

Latest 90th-percentile lead: no result on file. The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. EPA's database has no Lead and Copper Rule results for this system. Without them there is nothing to go on, so a tap test is the only way to know.

About Barrelville

Barrelville serves about 130 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Allegany County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0010001. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.

Nearby utilities

16 other systems share Allegany County. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
City Of Cumberland27,0391 ppb
City Of Frostburg11,0000 (not detected)
Eastern Region Allegany Distrib. System5,703-
Lavale Sanitary Commission5,5001 ppb
Midland-Lonaconing5,0001 ppb
Western Region Allegany Distrib. System4,955-
Md American Water - Pinto2,615-
Town Of Westernport2,2000 (not detected)
Southern Region Allegany Distrib. System865-
Midlothian Water Company3003.8 ppb

Next steps for Mt. Savage, MD

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mt. Savage, MD may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Barrelville 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.