Best Rental Housing, Inc., MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 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. 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 Best Rental Housing, Inc.
Best Rental Housing, Inc. serves about 68 people through 30 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: MD0220012; phone on file: 410-213-2821. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (3.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Best Rental Housing, Inc. is 6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | -5 ppb |
How Best Rental Housing, Inc. 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. Best Rental Housing, Inc.'s 2.5 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Maryland and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
21 other systems share Wicomico County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Best Rental Housing, Inc.. 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ocean Pines, 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 Best Rental Housing, Inc. 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.