Town And Country Apartments, ME
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14.3 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Town And Country Apartments
Town And Country Apartments serves about 136 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 Aroostook County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0092359; phone on file: 207-762-3200. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 5.7 ppb from 8.6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town And Country Apartments is 14.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 8.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.1 ppb |
How Town And Country Apartments 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. Town And Country Apartments's 14.3 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Maine and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Aroostook County
37 other systems share Aroostook County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town And Country Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Presque Isle Utilities District | 6,128 | 1.5 ppb |
| Houlton Water Company | 4,735 | 3.4 ppb |
| Caribou Utilities District | 3,943 | 0 (not detected) |
| Madawaska Water District | 2,738 | 0 (not detected) |
| Van Buren Water District | 2,190 | 2.7 ppb |
| Fort Fairfield Utilities District | 2,025 | 1.8 ppb |
| Fort Kent W & W Department | 1,578 | 1.9 ppb |
| Mars Hill And Blaine Water Company | 1,500 | 3.4 ppb |
| Limestone Water & Sewer District | 875 | 2.6 ppb |
| Ashland Water & Sewer District | 713 | 2.3 ppb |
Next steps for Presque Isle, ME
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Presque Isle, ME 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 Town And Country Apartments 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.