Silver Lake Estates, ME
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Silver Lake Estates
Silver Lake Estates serves about 110 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hancock County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0092722; phone on file: 207-702-9335. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Silver Lake Estates's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Silver Lake Estates is 3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
How Silver Lake Estates compares
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. Silver Lake Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Maine and the 10th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Hancock County
29 other systems share Hancock County; 23 of them have a higher latest lead result than Silver Lake Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Bar Harbor- Water Division | 4,443 | 3.4 ppb |
| Ellsworth Water Department | 3,910 | 4 ppb |
| Southwest Harbor Water & Sewer District | 2,480 | 2.1 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Bucksport Division | 1,700 | 2 ppb |
| Mount Desert Water Dist North | 1,623 | 2.48 ppb |
| Castine Water Department | 983 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Desert Water Dist -Seal | 865 | 2.77 ppb |
| Winter Harbor Water District | 700 | 1.4 ppb |
| Stonington Water Company | 683 | 1.3 ppb |
| Franklin Water Department | 420 | 3.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Silver Lake Estates's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Silver Lake 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.