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Moosehead Trail Village, ME

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.

Moosehead Trail Village at a glance

Moosehead Trail Village serves about 60 people through 24 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Waldo County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0091850; phone on file: 207-582-1888. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.

Moosehead Trail Village's lead record

That is down 1.5 ppb from 4.2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Moosehead Trail Village is 4.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20242.7 ppb
20214.2 ppb
20194 ppb
20184 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. Moosehead Trail Village's 2.7 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Maine and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

17 other systems share Waldo County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Moosehead Trail Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Belfast Water District5,6982.96 ppb
Searsport Water District2,7630 (not detected)
Winterport Water District7630.54 ppb
Northport Village Corp Water Dept5502.1 ppb
Morrill Village Water District1430 (not detected)
The Sandy Point Water Company984 ppb
Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage Condos900 (not detected)
Birchwood Trailer Park900.76 ppb
Unity By The Stream Llc880 (not detected)
Ducktrap Harbor Condominiums831.3 ppb

What to do in your house

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Farmingdale, 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 Moosehead Trail Village 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.