Howards Trailer Park, ME
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Howards Trailer Park serves about 75 people through 30 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Waldo County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0003342; phone on file: 207-338-9885. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Howards Trailer Park's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Howards Trailer Park is 0.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.8 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. Howards Trailer Park's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Maine and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Waldo County
17 other systems share Waldo County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Howards Trailer Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Belfast Water District | 5,698 | 2.96 ppb |
| Searsport Water District | 2,763 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winterport Water District | 763 | 0.54 ppb |
| Northport Village Corp Water Dept | 550 | 2.1 ppb |
| Morrill Village Water District | 143 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Sandy Point Water Company | 98 | 4 ppb |
| Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage Condos | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
| Birchwood Trailer Park | 90 | 0.76 ppb |
| Unity By The Stream Llc | 88 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ducktrap Harbor Condominiums | 83 | 1.3 ppb |
Next steps for Swanville, ME
Look up your address in Howards Trailer Park's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Howards Trailer 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.