Heritage Mobile Home Park, MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Heritage Mobile Home Park serves about 80 people through 80 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Dorchester County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0090224; phone on file: 410-205-5312. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Heritage Mobile Home Park's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heritage Mobile Home Park is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
How Heritage Mobile Home Park 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. Heritage Mobile Home Park's 0.8 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Maryland and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Dorchester County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heritage Mobile Home Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Cambridge Water | 15,000 | 4.1 ppb |
| Town Of Hurlock | 2,150 | 6.7 ppb |
| Town Of Vienna | 573 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Secretary | 535 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of East New Market | 400 | 1.3 ppb |
| Bonnie Brook | 390 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lodgecliffe Distribution System | 300 | - |
| Reliance Mobile Home Park | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dorchester Country Estates M.H.P. | 118 | 11.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; East New Market, 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 Heritage Mobile Home Park 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.