R & R Estates, MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (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. 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
R & R Estates serves about 96 people through 41 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Harford County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0120210; phone on file: 410-808-0974. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
R & R Estates's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for R & R Estates is 6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 6 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. R & R Estates's 1.1 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Maryland and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Harford County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than R & R Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Harford County D.P.W. | 104,567 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Aberdeen | 18,006 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chapel Hill - Aberdeen Proving Grounds | 15,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Havre De Grace | 14,000 | 2 ppb |
| Maryland American Water Company | 13,200 | 2 ppb |
| Md American Water Greenridge | 2,351 | 0 (not detected) |
| Swan Harbour Dell Mobile Home Park | 500 | 6 ppb |
| Campus Hills Water Works | 250 | 2.4 ppb |
| Town Of Darlington | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Md American Water Lakeside Vista | 226 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Darlington, 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 R & R 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.