Mt Blue Standard Water District, ME
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Mt Blue Standard Water District at a glance
Mt Blue Standard Water District serves about 650 people through 260 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Franklin County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0091260; phone on file: 207-639-5306. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mt Blue Standard Water District is 1.8 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.6 ppb |
How Mt Blue Standard Water District compares
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. Mt Blue Standard Water District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Maine and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Franklin County
12 other systems share Franklin County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mt Blue Standard Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Farmington Village Corp Water Dept | 4,050 | 8.42 ppb |
| Wilton Water Department | 2,800 | 4.9 ppb |
| Sugarloaf Water Association | 1,730 | 2.98 ppb |
| Rangeley Water District | 1,378 | 1.9 ppb |
| Jay Village Water District | 975 | 7.1 ppb |
| Kingfield Water District | 950 | 1.3 ppb |
| North Jay Water District | 500 | 2.5 ppb |
| Strong Water District | 500 | 2.6 ppb |
| Eustis Water Department | 475 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Sharon Water District | 245 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Phillips, ME
Look up your address in Mt Blue Standard Water District's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Mt Blue Standard 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.