Maine Water Company Oakland Division, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Maine Water Company Oakland Division
Maine Water Company Oakland Division serves about 2,873 people through 1,149 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Kennebec County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0091190; phone on file: 207-294-6940. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Maine Water Company Oakland Division's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Maine Water Company Oakland Division is 3.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.5 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. Maine Water Company Oakland Division's 2 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Maine and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share Kennebec County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Maine Water Company Oakland Division. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kennebec Water District | 22,060 | 1.87 ppb |
| Greater Augusta Utility District | 13,750 | 1.1 ppb |
| Gardiner Water District | 9,000 | 3.44 ppb |
| Winthrop Utilities District | 2,750 | 1.7 ppb |
| Hallowell Water District | 2,300 | 1.6 ppb |
| Clinton Water District | 1,013 | 0.5 ppb |
| Monmouth Water Association | 588 | 1.5 ppb |
| Pine Ridge Village | 85 | 0.6 ppb |
| Averills Mobile Home Park | 83 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dirigo Mobile Home Park | 80 | 1.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Poland, 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 Maine Water Company Oakland Division 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.