Piney Point Landings, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Piney Point Landings
Piney Point Landings serves about 239 people through 88 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in St. Mary'S County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0180047; phone on file: 240-925-3139. 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 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Piney Point Landings is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | -2 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Piney Point Landings's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 23rd percentile in Maryland and the 17th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
36 other systems share St. Mary'S County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Piney Point Landings. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lexington Park | 43,030 | 0 (not detected) |
| Patuxent Naval Air Station (Navfac-Wash) | 22,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Leonardtown | 5,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Country Lakes | 3,016 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Cove | 2,728 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saint Marys College | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wicomico Shores | 1,262 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenbrier | 1,161 | 0 (not detected) |
| Breton Bay | 1,012 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lord Calvert Trailer Park | 892 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for California, MD
Look up your address in Piney Point Landings's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Piney Point Landings 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.