Pine Spring Roads & Water, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 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
Pine Spring Roads & Water serves about 220 people through 88 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in York County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0091360; phone on file: 207-475-7125. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pine Spring Roads & Water is 14 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 14 ppb over 10 |
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. Pine Spring Roads & Water's 2.4 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Maine and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in York County
34 other systems share York County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pine Spring Roads & Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Maine Water Company Biddeford Saco Div | 42,508 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Wd | 35,663 | 1 ppb |
| Kittery Water District | 14,478 | 2 ppb |
| Sanford Water District | 14,328 | 4 ppb |
| York Water District | 13,675 | 2 ppb |
| South Berwick Water District | 3,722 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Arrowhead Community Inc | 3,500 | 2 ppb |
| Berwick Water Department | 2,845 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Berwick Water District | 2,125 | 4 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Kezar Falls Division | 1,115 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Shapleigh, ME
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Shapleigh, 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 Pine Spring Roads & Water 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.