Glen Meadows Retirement Community, MD
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 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.
About Glen Meadows Retirement Community
Glen Meadows Retirement Community serves about 468 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 Baltimore County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0030208; phone on file: 443-223-3525. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Glen Meadows Retirement Community is 58 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 8 ppb |
| 2017 | 58 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 20 ppb over 15 |
How Glen Meadows Retirement Community compares
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. Glen Meadows Retirement Community's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 31st percentile in Maryland and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Baltimore County
6 other systems share Baltimore County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Glen Meadows Retirement Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Stella Maris | 873 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sunnybrook | 416 | 3 ppb |
| Chapel Hill Nursing Center | 125 | 2 ppb |
| Granite Mobile Home Park | 96 | 4.4 ppb |
| Gramercy Llc (Aka Koinonia Partnership ) | 40 | 8 ppb |
| Phoenix | 31 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Glen Arm, MD
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glen Arm, MD 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 Glen Meadows Retirement Community 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.