Bayside Village, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Bayside Village serves about 50 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Worcester County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD1231051; phone on file: 443-523-0442. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Bayside Village's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bayside Village is 3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
Against other Maryland systems
Of the 437 Maryland systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 21 have gone over at some point. Bayside Village's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Maryland and the 3rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Worcester County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bayside Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Ocean City | 30,000 | 2.8 ppb |
| Ocean Pines | 11,890 | 3.3 ppb |
| Mystic Harbour | 5,945 | 2.3 ppb |
| Town Of Berlin | 4,500 | 4.6 ppb |
| City Of Pocomoke City | 4,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Snow Hill | 2,409 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riddle Farm | 500 | 1.45 ppb |
| Nantucket Point(Distribution-Delaware) | 500 | 2 ppb |
| Newark | 325 | 2.05 ppb |
| Briddletown Distribution System | 150 | - |
Next steps for Salisbury, MD
Look up your address in Bayside Village'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 Bayside Village 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.