Town Of Pittsville, MD
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.7 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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 Pittsville
Town Of Pittsville serves about 1,500 people through 741 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Wicomico County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0220009; phone on file: 410-835-8872. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.4 ppb from 2.3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Pittsville is 17.8 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 17.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 8 ppb |
| 2016 | 17 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 Pittsville's 3.7 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Maryland and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Wicomico County
21 other systems share Wicomico County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Pittsville. 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 Hebron | 1,022 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Willards | 1,021 | 2.9 ppb |
| Town Of Sharptown | 625 | 0 (not detected) |
| Steeplechase Waterworks | 395 | 18.3 ppb |
| 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) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pittsville, 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 Pittsville 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.