Steeplechase Waterworks, MD
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 18.3 ppb (monitoring period 2020-2022). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Steeplechase Waterworks
Steeplechase Waterworks serves about 395 people through 158 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wicomico County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0220010; phone on file: 410-742-8072. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 14.3 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Steeplechase Waterworks is 18.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 9 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Steeplechase Waterworks's 18.3 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Maryland and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
21 other systems share Wicomico County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Steeplechase Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Salisbury | 30,343 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Fruitland | 5,907 | 5.8 ppb |
| Town Of Delmar | 4,500 | 1.8 ppb |
| Town Of Pittsville | 1,500 | 3.7 ppb |
| Town Of Hebron | 1,022 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Willards | 1,021 | 2.9 ppb |
| Town Of Sharptown | 625 | 0 (not detected) |
| Westside Mobile Home Park | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedarhurst Mobile Home Park | 220 | 3.9 ppb |
| Naylor Mill Village Mobile Home Park | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Steeplechase Waterworks 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.