City Of Salisbury, 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 City Of Salisbury
City Of Salisbury serves about 30,343 people through 10,501 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 groundwater, in Wicomico County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0220004; phone on file: 410-548-3199. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
City Of Salisbury'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 Salisbury 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) |
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. City Of Salisbury's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 50th percentile in Maryland and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
21 other systems share Wicomico County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Salisbury. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Fruitland | 5,907 | 5.8 ppb |
| Town Of Delmar | 4,500 | 1.8 ppb |
| Town Of Pittsville | 1,500 | 3.7 ppb |
| Town Of Hebron | 1,022 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Willards | 1,021 | 2.9 ppb |
| Town Of Sharptown | 625 | 0 (not detected) |
| Steeplechase Waterworks | 395 | 18.3 ppb |
| Westside Mobile Home Park | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedarhurst Mobile Home Park | 220 | 3.9 ppb |
| Naylor Mill Village Mobile Home Park | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in City Of Salisbury'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 Salisbury 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.