Greater Augusta Utility District, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Greater Augusta Utility District at a glance
Greater Augusta Utility District serves about 13,750 people through 5,500 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Kennebec County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0090080; phone on file: 207-622-3701. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Greater Augusta Utility District's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Greater Augusta Utility District is 3.8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.8 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Greater Augusta Utility District's 1.1 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in Maine and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Kennebec County
26 other systems share Kennebec County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Greater Augusta Utility District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kennebec Water District | 22,060 | 1.87 ppb |
| Gardiner Water District | 9,000 | 3.44 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Oakland Division | 2,873 | 2 ppb |
| Winthrop Utilities District | 2,750 | 1.7 ppb |
| Hallowell Water District | 2,300 | 1.6 ppb |
| Clinton Water District | 1,013 | 0.5 ppb |
| Monmouth Water Association | 588 | 1.5 ppb |
| Pine Ridge Village | 85 | 0.6 ppb |
| Averills Mobile Home Park | 83 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dirigo Mobile Home Park | 80 | 1.4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Augusta, 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 Greater Augusta Utility 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.