Breton Bay, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Breton Bay
Breton Bay serves about 1,012 people through 372 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in St. Mary'S County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0180001; phone on file: 240-925-3139. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Breton Bay is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | -2 ppb |
Against other Maryland systems
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. Breton Bay's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 39th percentile in Maryland and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
36 other systems share St. Mary'S County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Breton Bay. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lexington Park | 43,030 | 0 (not detected) |
| Patuxent Naval Air Station (Navfac-Wash) | 22,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Leonardtown | 5,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Country Lakes | 3,016 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Cove | 2,728 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saint Marys College | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wicomico Shores | 1,262 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenbrier | 1,161 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lord Calvert Trailer Park | 892 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunting Quarters | 715 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Breton Bay'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 Breton Bay 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.