City Of Frostburg, 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.
City Of Frostburg at a glance
City Of Frostburg serves about 11,000 people through 2,940 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Allegany County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0010011; phone on file: 301-689-6000. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
City Of Frostburg's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Frostburg 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) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How City Of Frostburg compares
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. City Of Frostburg's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 47th percentile in Maryland and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Allegany County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Frostburg. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Cumberland | 27,039 | 1 ppb |
| Eastern Region Allegany Distrib. System | 5,703 | - |
| Lavale Sanitary Commission | 5,500 | 1 ppb |
| Midland-Lonaconing | 5,000 | 1 ppb |
| Western Region Allegany Distrib. System | 4,955 | - |
| Md American Water - Pinto | 2,615 | - |
| Town Of Westernport | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southern Region Allegany Distrib. System | 865 | - |
| Midlothian Water Company | 300 | 3.8 ppb |
| Barrelville | 130 | - |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in City Of Frostburg'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 City Of Frostburg 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.