Bennett Mobile Home Park, MD
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (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 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.
Who runs the water here
Bennett Mobile Home Park serves about 60 people through 37 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wicomico County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0220222; phone on file: 410-896-4061. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bennett Mobile Home Park's lead record
That is up 1.1 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bennett Mobile Home Park is 31 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 31 ppb over 15 |
How Bennett Mobile Home Park compares
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. Bennett Mobile Home Park's 1.1 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Maryland and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Wicomico County
21 other systems share Wicomico County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bennett Mobile Home Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Salisbury | 30,343 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Fruitland | 5,907 | 5.8 ppb |
| Town Of Delmar | 4,500 | 1.8 ppb |
| Town Of Pittsville | 1,500 | 3.7 ppb |
| Town Of Hebron | 1,022 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Willards | 1,021 | 2.9 ppb |
| Town Of Sharptown | 625 | 0 (not detected) |
| Steeplechase Waterworks | 395 | 18.3 ppb |
| Westside Mobile Home Park | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedarhurst Mobile Home Park | 220 | 3.9 ppb |
Next steps for Delmar, MD
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Delmar, 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 Bennett Mobile Home Park 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.