Pleasant Acres Estates, ME
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Pleasant Acres Estates at a glance
Pleasant Acres Estates serves about 193 people through 77 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Somerset County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0005693; phone on file: 207-754-6888. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Pleasant Acres Estates's lead record
That is down 1.6 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pleasant Acres Estates is 2 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.7 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. Pleasant Acres Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 22nd percentile in Maine and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Somerset County
16 other systems share Somerset County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pleasant Acres Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Maine Water Company Skowhegan Division | 6,105 | 4.2 ppb |
| Anson And Madison Water District | 5,568 | 4.3 ppb |
| Pittsfield Water Dept | 3,228 | 1.8 ppb |
| Jackman Utility District | 1,125 | 5.6 ppb |
| Bingham Water District | 1,075 | 3.5 ppb |
| Norridgewock Water District | 1,055 | 1.87 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Hartland Division | 1,043 | 3.4 ppb |
| Solon Water District | 475 | 2 ppb |
| Riverside Terrace | 350 | 3.4 ppb |
| Moscow Water District | 313 | 1.7 ppb |
Next steps for Palmyra, ME
Look up your address in Pleasant Acres Estates'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 Pleasant Acres 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.