Kennedyville, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Kennedyville at a glance
Kennedyville serves about 300 people through 90 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Kent County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0140005; phone on file: 443-282-4167. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Kennedyville's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kennedyville is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
Against other Maryland systems
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. Kennedyville's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in Maryland and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Kent County
11 other systems share Kent County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kennedyville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Chestertown | 5,400 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Rock Hall | 1,750 | 3.5 ppb |
| Worton | 955 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairlee | 725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Millington | 630 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Galena | 560 | 1.5 ppb |
| Town Of Betterton | 481 | 5 ppb |
| Edesville | 296 | - |
| Millington Distribution System | 260 | - |
| Hilltop Trailer Park | 65 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Kennedyville'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 Kennedyville 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.