Shady Acres Mobile Home Park, MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Shady Acres Mobile Home Park at a glance
Shady Acres Mobile Home Park serves about 484 people through 186 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Glynn County, Maryland. EPA system ID: GA1270017; phone on file: 202-838-6471. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Shady Acres Mobile Home Park's lead record
That is down 2.6 ppb from 4.6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shady Acres Mobile Home Park is 4.6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.6 ppb |
How Shady Acres Mobile Home Park compares
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. Shady Acres Mobile Home Park's 2 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Maryland and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
2 other systems share Glynn County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shady Acres Mobile Home Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Druid Oaks Mobile Home Park | 247 | 0 (not detected) |
| Altamaha Mobile Home Village | 143 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Potomac, MD
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Potomac, 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 Shady Acres Mobile Home Park 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.