New Portland Water District, ME
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About New Portland Water District
New Portland Water District serves about 120 people through 48 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: ME0091090; phone on file: 207-446-0494. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.3 ppb from 5.3 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Portland Water District is 20 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.7 ppb |
How New Portland 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 Portland Water District's 4 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Maine and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Somerset County
16 other systems share Somerset County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Portland 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 |
| Moscow Water District | 313 | 1.7 ppb |
Next steps for Kingfield, ME
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kingfield, 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 Portland 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.