Mt. Airy Nursing & Rehab, MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2021). 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.
Mt. Airy Nursing & Rehab at a glance
Mt. Airy Nursing & Rehab serves about 104 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 Carroll County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0060211; phone on file: 301-491-3090. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2018 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mt. Airy Nursing & Rehab is 2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 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. Mt. Airy Nursing & Rehab's 2 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Maryland and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Carroll County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mt. Airy Nursing & Rehab. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Westminster | 35,256 | 0 (not detected) |
| Freedom District | 24,867 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Mount Airy | 9,890 | 1.4 ppb |
| City Of Taneytown | 6,750 | 3 ppb |
| Town Of Hampstead | 6,600 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Manchester | 4,954 | 1.16 ppb |
| Wakefield Valley | 2,436 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of New Windsor | 1,732 | 2.8 ppb |
| Springfield Hospital Distribution | 1,500 | - |
| Town Of Union Bridge | 997 | 4 ppb |
Next steps for Mount Airy, MD
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mount Airy, 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 Mt. Airy Nursing & Rehab 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.