Benjamin River Apts, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.9 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Benjamin River Apts
Benjamin River Apts serves about 45 people through 12 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hancock County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0090145; phone on file: 207-866-4634. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Benjamin River Apts's lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 3.9 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Benjamin River Apts is 5.9 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.4 ppb |
Against other Maine systems
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. Benjamin River Apts's 5.9 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Maine and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
29 other systems share Hancock County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Benjamin River Apts. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Bar Harbor- Water Division | 4,443 | 3.4 ppb |
| Ellsworth Water Department | 3,910 | 4 ppb |
| Southwest Harbor Water & Sewer District | 2,480 | 2.1 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Bucksport Division | 1,700 | 2 ppb |
| Mount Desert Water Dist North | 1,623 | 2.48 ppb |
| Castine Water Department | 983 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Desert Water Dist -Seal | 865 | 2.77 ppb |
| Winter Harbor Water District | 700 | 1.4 ppb |
| Stonington Water Company | 683 | 1.3 ppb |
| Franklin Water Department | 420 | 3.6 ppb |
Next steps for Orono, ME
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Orono, ME 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 Benjamin River Apts 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.