Schooner Pass Trustees Condominiums, MA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Schooner Pass Trustees Condominiums
Schooner Pass Trustees Condominiums serves about 136 people through 69 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: MA4036011; phone on file: 5087593531. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Schooner Pass Trustees Condominiums is 3.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
Against other Massachusetts systems
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. Schooner Pass Trustees Condominiums's 0.8 ppb sits at the 29th percentile in Massachusetts and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
29 other systems share Barnstable County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Schooner Pass Trustees Condominiums. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Falmouth Water Dept | 97,551 | 1.1 ppb |
| Dennis Water District | 65,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Upper Cape Regional Water Cooperative | 56,250 | - |
| Centerville Osterville Marstons Mills Wd | 50,000 | 1.82 ppb |
| Harwich Water Department | 39,144 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yarmouth Water Department | 38,900 | 1.5 ppb |
| Mashpee Water District | 36,922 | 1.4 ppb |
| Hyannis Water System, Town Of Barnstable | 35,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brewster Water Department | 35,000 | 3.4 ppb |
| Chatham Water Department | 30,000 | 1.05 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Raynham, 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 Schooner Pass Trustees Condominiums 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.