Sandy Bottom Estates Mhp, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 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.
Sandy Bottom Estates Mhp at a glance
Sandy Bottom Estates Mhp serves about 168 people through 67 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Androscoggin County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: ME0095615; phone on file: 508-358-1065. 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 2020 (2.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sandy Bottom Estates Mhp is 7.3 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 7.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
How Sandy Bottom Estates Mhp compares
Of the 535 Massachusetts systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.7 ppb; 13 are over 15 ppb right now and 66 have gone over at some point. Sandy Bottom Estates Mhp's 2.5 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Massachusetts and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sudbury, MA 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 Sandy Bottom Estates Mhp 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.