Covered Bridge Apartments, ME
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Covered Bridge Apartments serves about 25 people through 10 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Piscataquis County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0094501; phone on file: 207-265-4006. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Covered Bridge Apartments is 1340 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1340 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 624 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 240 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 12.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 12.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 1.3 ppb |
How Covered Bridge Apartments compares
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. Covered Bridge Apartments's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 0th percentile in Maine and the 0th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Piscataquis County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Covered Bridge Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dover-Foxcroft Water District | 2,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Milo Water District | 1,720 | 15 ppb |
| Guilford-Sangerville Utilities District | 1,535 | 2.5 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Greenville Division | 1,335 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brownville Jct Water Dept | 663 | 1.5 ppb |
| Monson Utilities District | 298 | 1.4 ppb |
| Brownville Water Department | 253 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Bangor, ME
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bangor, ME 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 Covered Bridge Apartments 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.