Oak Lane Mobile Home Park, MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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.
Who runs the water here
Oak Lane Mobile Home Park serves about 55 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cecil County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0070226; phone on file: 443-309-5270. 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 2020 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oak Lane Mobile Home Park is 2 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
Against other Maryland systems
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. Oak Lane Mobile Home Park's 0.7 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Maryland and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Cecil County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oak Lane Mobile Home Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Elkton | 15,625 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of North East | 8,600 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Perryville | 4,413 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Charlestown | 3,791 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Rising Sun | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Perry Point V.A. Medical Center | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town & Country Mobile Home Park | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Chesapeake City [Formerly South] | 673 | - |
| Crystal Beach Manor/T&C Utility | 500 | 13.3 ppb |
| Town Of Cecilton | 477 | 16 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Port Deposit, MD 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 Oak Lane Mobile Home Park whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1420 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.