Black Horse Inn, ME
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.3 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Black Horse Inn
Black Horse Inn serves about 38 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Waldo County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0094466; phone on file: 207-713-9995. 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 up 10.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Black Horse Inn is 10.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Black Horse Inn's 10.3 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Maine and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Waldo County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Black Horse Inn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Belfast Water District | 5,698 | 2.96 ppb |
| Searsport Water District | 2,763 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winterport Water District | 763 | 0.54 ppb |
| Northport Village Corp Water Dept | 550 | 2.1 ppb |
| Morrill Village Water District | 143 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Sandy Point Water Company | 98 | 4 ppb |
| Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage Condos | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
| Birchwood Trailer Park | 90 | 0.76 ppb |
| Unity By The Stream Llc | 88 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ducktrap Harbor Condominiums | 83 | 1.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Belfast, 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 Black Horse Inn 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.