Sandy Stream Village, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.3 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.
About Sandy Stream Village
Sandy Stream Village serves about 60 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 Waldo County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0091860; phone on file: 207-582-1888. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 3.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sandy Stream Village is 3.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Sandy Stream Village's 3.3 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Maine and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Waldo County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sandy Stream Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Belfast Water District | 5,698 | 2.96 ppb |
| Searsport Water District | 2,763 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winterport Water District | 763 | 0.54 ppb |
| Northport Village Corp Water Dept | 550 | 2.1 ppb |
| Morrill Village Water District | 143 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Sandy Point Water Company | 98 | 4 ppb |
| Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage Condos | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
| Birchwood Trailer Park | 90 | 0.76 ppb |
| Unity By The Stream Llc | 88 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ducktrap Harbor Condominiums | 83 | 1.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Farmingdale, 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 Sandy Stream Village 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.