Elwell Farms, ME
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.
Elwell Farms at a glance
Elwell Farms serves about 36 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in York County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0092366; phone on file: 207-245-3252. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Elwell Farms'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 Elwell Farms is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Elwell Farms 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. Elwell Farms's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 3rd percentile in Maine and the 2nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in York County
34 other systems share York County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elwell Farms. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Maine Water Company Biddeford Saco Div | 42,508 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Wd | 35,663 | 1 ppb |
| Kittery Water District | 14,478 | 2 ppb |
| Sanford Water District | 14,328 | 4 ppb |
| York Water District | 13,675 | 2 ppb |
| South Berwick Water District | 3,722 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Arrowhead Community Inc | 3,500 | 2 ppb |
| Berwick Water Department | 2,845 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Berwick Water District | 2,125 | 4 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Kezar Falls Division | 1,115 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Elwell Farms'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 Elwell Farms 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.