Town Of Betterton, MD
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Town Of Betterton
Town Of Betterton serves about 481 people through 284 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Kent County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0140001; phone on file: 410-348-5522. 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 5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Betterton is 26 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 26 ppb over 15 |
Against other Maryland systems
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. Town Of Betterton's 5 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Maryland and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Kent County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Town Of Betterton. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Chestertown | 5,400 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Rock Hall | 1,750 | 3.5 ppb |
| Worton | 955 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairlee | 725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Millington | 630 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Galena | 560 | 1.5 ppb |
| Kennedyville | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Edesville | 296 | - |
| Millington Distribution System | 260 | - |
| Hilltop Trailer Park | 65 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Betterton, 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 Town Of Betterton 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.