Midland-Lonaconing, MD
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
About Midland-Lonaconing
Midland-Lonaconing serves about 5,000 people through 1,450 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Allegany County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0010018; phone on file: 301-463-6266. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Midland-Lonaconing is 29.8 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 29.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Midland-Lonaconing's 1 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Maryland and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Allegany County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Midland-Lonaconing. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Cumberland | 27,039 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Frostburg | 11,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastern Region Allegany Distrib. System | 5,703 | - |
| Lavale Sanitary Commission | 5,500 | 1 ppb |
| Western Region Allegany Distrib. System | 4,955 | - |
| Md American Water - Pinto | 2,615 | - |
| Town Of Westernport | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southern Region Allegany Distrib. System | 865 | - |
| Midlothian Water Company | 300 | 3.8 ppb |
| Barrelville | 130 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lonaconing, 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 Midland-Lonaconing 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.