Tenthouse Creek Community - Acds, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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 Tenthouse Creek Community - Acds
Tenthouse Creek Community - Acds serves about 23 people through 16 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0020063; phone on file: 410-222-3954. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tenthouse Creek Community - Acds is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
How Tenthouse Creek Community - Acds 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. Tenthouse Creek Community - Acds's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 1st percentile in Maryland and the 0th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Anne Arundel County
26 other systems share Anne Arundel County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tenthouse Creek Community - Acds. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Glen Burnie-Broadneck | 290,606 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crofton-Odenton | 62,986 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fort George G. Meade | 62,234 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Annapolis | 35,000 | 6.3 ppb |
| Broad Creek | 26,033 | 0 (not detected) |
| U.S. Naval Academy | 8,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maryland American Water--Severn System | 5,447 | 0 (not detected) |
| Md American Water Provinces | 3,886 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Village Townhomes | 2,400 | 5.3 ppb |
| Herald Harbor | 2,241 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Annapolis, MD
Look up your address in Tenthouse Creek Community - Acds'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 Tenthouse Creek Community - Acds 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.