Hillhouse Inc, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.3 ppb (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. 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.
Hillhouse Inc at a glance
Hillhouse Inc serves about 146 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 Sagadahoc County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0095240; phone on file: 207-443-6301. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hillhouse Inc is 2.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.2 ppb |
How Hillhouse Inc 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. Hillhouse Inc's 2.3 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Maine and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sagadahoc County
8 other systems share Sagadahoc County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hillhouse Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bath Water District | 9,205 | 3.2 ppb |
| Richmond Utilities District | 1,492 | 1.6 ppb |
| Bowdoinham Water District | 738 | 4.3 ppb |
| Topsham Mobile Home Park Inc | 243 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cathance Trailer Park | 135 | 0.43 ppb |
| Pinewood Acres Trailer Park | 95 | 1.3 ppb |
| Meadowview Apartments | 40 | 0 (not detected) |
| Happy Trails Mhp | 33 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Bath, ME
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bath, 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 Hillhouse Inc 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.