Chapel Hill Nursing Center, MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (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. 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 Chapel Hill Nursing Center
Chapel Hill Nursing Center serves about 125 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 Baltimore County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0030202. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Chapel Hill Nursing Center's lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chapel Hill Nursing Center is 8 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 6 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 8 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. Chapel Hill Nursing Center's 2 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Maryland and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Baltimore County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Chapel Hill Nursing Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Stella Maris | 873 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glen Meadows Retirement Community | 468 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sunnybrook | 416 | 3 ppb |
| Granite Mobile Home Park | 96 | 4.4 ppb |
| Gramercy Llc (Aka Koinonia Partnership ) | 40 | 8 ppb |
| Phoenix | 31 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Randalstown, 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 Chapel Hill Nursing Center whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1530 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.