New Gloucester Water District, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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.
New Gloucester Water District at a glance
New Gloucester Water District serves about 145 people through 58 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 Cumberland County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0092428; phone on file: 207-926-4126. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
New Gloucester Water District's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Gloucester Water District is 2 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How New Gloucester 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. New Gloucester Water District's 0.5 ppb sits at the 30th percentile in Maine and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Cumberland County
28 other systems share Cumberland County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Gloucester Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Portland Water District-Greater | 135,068 | 1.5 ppb |
| Brunswick/Topsham Water District | 18,863 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yarmouth Water District | 8,000 | 9.52 ppb |
| Bridgton Water District | 3,660 | 1.8 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Freeport Division | 2,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gray Water District | 2,468 | 2.3 ppb |
| South Freeport Water District | 960 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrison Water District | 863 | 1.1 ppb |
| Friendly Village Of Gorham Mhp | 763 | 0.74 ppb |
| Knights Hill Association | 718 | 2.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Gloucester, 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 New Gloucester 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.