Pheasant Ridge Estates, MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Pheasant Ridge Estates serves about 300 people through 101 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Carroll County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0060210; phone on file: 301-831-5161. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Pheasant Ridge Estates's lead record
That is down 3.9 ppb from 4.6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pheasant Ridge Estates is 4.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.6 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. Pheasant Ridge Estates's 0.7 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Maryland and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Carroll County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pheasant Ridge Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Westminster | 35,256 | 0 (not detected) |
| Freedom District | 24,867 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Mount Airy | 9,890 | 1.4 ppb |
| City Of Taneytown | 6,750 | 3 ppb |
| Town Of Hampstead | 6,600 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Manchester | 4,954 | 1.16 ppb |
| Wakefield Valley | 2,436 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of New Windsor | 1,732 | 2.8 ppb |
| Springfield Hospital Distribution | 1,500 | - |
| Town Of Union Bridge | 997 | 4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mount Airy, 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 Pheasant Ridge 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.