Moscow Water District, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 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 Moscow Water District
Moscow Water District serves about 313 people through 125 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Somerset County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0091050; phone on file: 207-672-3668. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Moscow Water District's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Moscow Water District is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 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. Moscow Water District's 1.7 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Maine and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Somerset County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Moscow Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Maine Water Company Skowhegan Division | 6,105 | 4.2 ppb |
| Anson And Madison Water District | 5,568 | 4.3 ppb |
| Pittsfield Water Dept | 3,228 | 1.8 ppb |
| Jackman Utility District | 1,125 | 5.6 ppb |
| Bingham Water District | 1,075 | 3.5 ppb |
| Norridgewock Water District | 1,055 | 1.87 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Hartland Division | 1,043 | 3.4 ppb |
| Solon Water District | 475 | 2 ppb |
| Riverside Terrace | 350 | 3.4 ppb |
| Pleasant Acres Estates | 193 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Bingham, ME
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bingham, 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 Moscow Water District 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.