Pinetree Village Homeowners Association, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Pinetree Village Homeowners Association
Pinetree Village Homeowners Association serves about 40 people through 16 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: ME0092475; phone on file: 407-701-6010. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.3 ppb from 2.6 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pinetree Village Homeowners Association is 5.7 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 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. Pinetree Village Homeowners Association's 1.3 ppb sits at the 45th percentile in Maine and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
34 other systems share York County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pinetree Village Homeowners Association. 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) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wells, 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 Pinetree Village Homeowners Association 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.