Hillview Estates, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
About Hillview Estates
Hillview Estates serves about 140 people through 56 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Androscoggin County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0003535; phone on file: 207-225-2666. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hillview Estates is 3.4 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 3.4 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. Hillview Estates's 1 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Maine and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share Androscoggin County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hillview Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lewiston Water & Sewer Division | 23,720 | 1.7 ppb |
| Auburn Water District | 17,245 | 5 ppb |
| Lisbon Water Department | 6,643 | 3.4 ppb |
| Livermore Falls Water District | 2,995 | 12.3 ppb |
| Mechanic Falls Water Dept | 2,010 | 0.85 ppb |
| Sabattus Sanitary District | 1,688 | 1.5 ppb |
| Pine Ridge Hunton Brook Association | 298 | 0 (not detected) |
| Begin Trailer Park | 170 | 0 (not detected) |
| Poland Country Village Mhp Inc | 140 | 0 (not detected) |
| Country Acres Trailer Park | 75 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Turner, 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 Hillview Estates 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.