Dover-Foxcroft Water District, ME
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Dover-Foxcroft Water District at a glance
Dover-Foxcroft Water District serves about 2,400 people through 960 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Piscataquis County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0090470; phone on file: 207-717-5922. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Dover-Foxcroft Water District's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dover-Foxcroft Water District is 10 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 10 ppb |
| 2017 | 10 ppb |
| 2017 | 10 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Dover-Foxcroft Water District 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. Dover-Foxcroft Water District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in Maine and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Piscataquis County
7 other systems share Piscataquis County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dover-Foxcroft Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Covered Bridge Apartments | 25 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Dover-Foxcroft Water District'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 Dover-Foxcroft Water District 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.