Marybell Homes, MA

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.72 ppb (monitoring period 2009-2017). 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.

Who runs the water here

Marybell Homes serves about 355 people through 106 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cortland County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: NY1100641. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.

Marybell Homes's lead record

The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Marybell Homes is 1.72 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.

How Marybell Homes compares

Of the 535 Massachusetts systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.7 ppb; 13 are over 15 ppb right now and 66 have gone over at some point. Marybell Homes's 1.72 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Massachusetts and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).

What to do in your house

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pittsfield, MA 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 Marybell Homes 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.