Jackman Utility District, ME
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.6 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
Jackman Utility District serves about 1,125 people through 450 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Somerset County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0090730; phone on file: 207-668-7686. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.2 ppb from 8.8 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Jackman Utility District is 32 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 5 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 8.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 8.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 32 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 22 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 12.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 9.8 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. Jackman Utility District's 5.6 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Maine and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Somerset County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Jackman Utility District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Maine Water Company Skowhegan Division | 6,105 | 4.2 ppb |
| Anson And Madison Water District | 5,568 | 4.3 ppb |
| Pittsfield Water Dept | 3,228 | 1.8 ppb |
| Bingham Water District | 1,075 | 3.5 ppb |
| Norridgewock Water District | 1,055 | 1.87 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Hartland Division | 1,043 | 3.4 ppb |
| Solon Water District | 475 | 2 ppb |
| Riverside Terrace | 350 | 3.4 ppb |
| Moscow Water District | 313 | 1.7 ppb |
| Pleasant Acres Estates | 193 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jackman, 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 Jackman Utility District 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.