Patuxent Mobile Estates, MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 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.
Patuxent Mobile Estates at a glance
Patuxent Mobile Estates serves about 450 people through 150 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0020217; phone on file: 410-980-9234. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 7 ppb from 12 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Patuxent Mobile Estates is 12 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 2.7 ppb |
How Patuxent Mobile Estates 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. Patuxent Mobile Estates's 5 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Maryland and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Anne Arundel County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Patuxent Mobile Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Glen Burnie-Broadneck | 290,606 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crofton-Odenton | 62,986 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fort George G. Meade | 62,234 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Annapolis | 35,000 | 6.3 ppb |
| Broad Creek | 26,033 | 0 (not detected) |
| U.S. Naval Academy | 8,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maryland American Water--Severn System | 5,447 | 0 (not detected) |
| Md American Water Provinces | 3,886 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Village Townhomes | 2,400 | 5.3 ppb |
| Herald Harbor | 2,241 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lothian, 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 Patuxent Mobile Estates 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.