Mayo Center And Apartments, MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2019). 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 Mayo Center And Apartments
Mayo Center And Apartments serves about 60 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD1021462; phone on file: 410-260-6534. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Mayo Center And Apartments's lead record
That is down 3.2 ppb from 6.3 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mayo Center And Apartments is 6.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2017 | -5 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2016 | -5 ppb |
How Mayo Center And Apartments compares
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. Mayo Center And Apartments's 3.1 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Maryland and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Anne Arundel County
26 other systems share Anne Arundel County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mayo Center And Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Glen Burnie-Broadneck | 290,606 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crofton-Odenton | 62,986 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fort George G. Meade | 62,234 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Annapolis | 35,000 | 6.3 ppb |
| Broad Creek | 26,033 | 0 (not detected) |
| U.S. Naval Academy | 8,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maryland American Water--Severn System | 5,447 | 0 (not detected) |
| Md American Water Provinces | 3,886 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Village Townhomes | 2,400 | 5.3 ppb |
| Herald Harbor | 2,241 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Annapolis, MD
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Annapolis, MD 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 Mayo Center And Apartments 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.