Country Meadows Of Frederick, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2018-2018). 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.
Who runs the water here
Country Meadows Of Frederick serves about 295 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Frederick County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0100047; phone on file: 301-228-2249. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 10 ppb from 10 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Country Meadows Of Frederick is 10 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 10 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Country Meadows Of Frederick's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 26th percentile in Maryland and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Frederick County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Country Meadows Of Frederick. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| New Design - Frederick County | 74,911 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Frederick | 54,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Town Of Walkersville | 8,440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fort Detrick | 7,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Brunswick | 7,312 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Thurmont | 6,200 | 4 ppb |
| Town Of Middletown | 5,132 | - |
| Town Of Emmitsburg | 2,921 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Saint Marys University | 2,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fountaindale South | 2,610 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Frederick, MD
Look up your address in Country Meadows Of Frederick'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 Country Meadows Of Frederick 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.