Canton Point Park, ME
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Canton Point Park
Canton Point Park serves about 88 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Oxford County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0095630; phone on file: 207-754-8700. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Canton Point Park's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Canton Point Park is 0.9 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Maine systems
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. Canton Point Park's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Maine and the 8th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Oxford County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Canton Point Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rumford Water District | 4,050 | 3.7 ppb |
| Paris Utility District | 2,940 | 2.1 ppb |
| Mexico Water District | 2,425 | 1.4 ppb |
| Fryeburg Water Company | 2,085 | 1.2 ppb |
| Norway Water District | 2,043 | 3.4 ppb |
| Bethel Water District | 1,813 | 4.9 ppb |
| Dixfield Water & Sewer Dept | 1,415 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oxford Water District | 1,100 | 2.2 ppb |
| West Paris Water District | 540 | 3.1 ppb |
| Buckfield Village Corporation | 425 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Canton Point Park'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 Canton Point 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.