Northfield Apartments, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Northfield Apartments
Northfield Apartments serves about 40 people through 14 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wicomico County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0220225; phone on file: 410-546-4500. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Northfield Apartments'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 Northfield Apartments is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
How Northfield Apartments compares
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. Northfield Apartments's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 3rd percentile in Maryland and the 2nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Wicomico County
21 other systems share Wicomico County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Northfield Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Salisbury | 30,343 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Fruitland | 5,907 | 5.8 ppb |
| Town Of Delmar | 4,500 | 1.8 ppb |
| Town Of Pittsville | 1,500 | 3.7 ppb |
| Town Of Hebron | 1,022 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Willards | 1,021 | 2.9 ppb |
| Town Of Sharptown | 625 | 0 (not detected) |
| Steeplechase Waterworks | 395 | 18.3 ppb |
| Westside Mobile Home Park | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedarhurst Mobile Home Park | 220 | 3.9 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Northfield Apartments'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 Northfield Apartments 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.