Northport Village Corp Water Dept, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
About Northport Village Corp Water Dept
Northport Village Corp Water Dept serves about 550 people through 220 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 Waldo County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0091165; phone on file: 207-882-5476. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (2.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Northport Village Corp Water Dept is 10 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 10 ppb |
Against other Maine systems
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. Northport Village Corp Water Dept's 2.1 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Maine and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Waldo County
17 other systems share Waldo County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Northport Village Corp Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Belfast Water District | 5,698 | 2.96 ppb |
| Searsport Water District | 2,763 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winterport Water District | 763 | 0.54 ppb |
| Morrill Village Water District | 143 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Sandy Point Water Company | 98 | 4 ppb |
| Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage Condos | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
| Birchwood Trailer Park | 90 | 0.76 ppb |
| Unity By The Stream Llc | 88 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ducktrap Harbor Condominiums | 83 | 1.3 ppb |
| Howards Trailer Park | 75 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wiscasset, 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 Northport Village Corp Water Dept 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.