Benedictine School, MD
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2022). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Benedictine School at a glance
Benedictine School serves about 300 people through 3 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Caroline County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0050201; phone on file: 410-634-2112. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.7 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Benedictine School is 1360 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1360 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Benedictine School's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 26th percentile in Maryland and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Caroline County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Benedictine School. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Denton | 4,848 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Federalsburg | 2,450 | 2.5 ppb |
| Town Of Greensboro | 1,878 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Ridgely | 1,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Preston | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Caroline Acres Mobile Home Park | 395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Mobile Home Park | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Henderson | 156 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jonestown Water System | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nelpine Mobile Home Park | 70 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ridgely, 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 Benedictine School whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1900 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.