Bradford Estates, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: -1 ppb (monitoring period 2015-2017). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Bradford Estates
Bradford Estates serves about 178 people through 66 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Frederick County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0100032; phone on file: 301-600-2581. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bradford Estates's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bradford Estates is -1 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2017 | -1 ppb |
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. Bradford Estates's -1 ppb sits at the 0th percentile in Maryland and the 0th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Frederick County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bradford Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| New Design - Frederick County | 74,911 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Frederick | 54,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Walkersville | 8,440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fort Detrick | 7,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Brunswick | 7,312 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Thurmont | 6,200 | 4 ppb |
| Town Of Middletown | 5,132 | - |
| Town Of Emmitsburg | 2,921 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Saint Marys University | 2,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fountaindale South | 2,610 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Bradford Estates's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Bradford Estates 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.