Greenwood Garden Apartments, ME
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.3 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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
Greenwood Garden Apartments serves about 50 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Penobscot County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0092327; phone on file: 207-942-8003. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Greenwood Garden Apartments's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (5.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Greenwood Garden Apartments is 23.8 ppb across 18 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 6 ppb |
| 2023 | 6 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 22 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 22 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 23.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
Against other Maine systems
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. Greenwood Garden Apartments's 5.3 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Maine and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
48 other systems share Penobscot County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Greenwood Garden Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bangor Water District | 27,298 | 7.45 ppb |
| Brewer Water Department | 8,860 | 2.1 ppb |
| Old Town Water District | 7,648 | 7.9 ppb |
| Orono-Veazie Water District | 5,793 | 10 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Millinocket Division | 5,400 | 2.8 ppb |
| Hampden Water District | 4,800 | 2.52 ppb |
| Lincoln Water District | 3,020 | 0.96 ppb |
| Dexter Utility District | 2,338 | 4.9 ppb |
| East Millinocket Water Works | 2,133 | 2.8 ppb |
| Newport Water District | 1,900 | 1.3 ppb |
Your move
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 Greenwood Garden 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.