Town Of Queenstown, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Town Of Queenstown at a glance
Town Of Queenstown serves about 705 people through 313 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 Queen Anne'S County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0170003; phone on file: 410-827-7646. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Town Of Queenstown's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Queenstown is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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 Queenstown's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 36th percentile in Maryland and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Queen Anne'S County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Queenstown. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Stevensville | 9,155 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Centreville | 3,322 | 5 ppb |
| Bayside-Queenslanding | 1,030 | - |
| Prospect Bay | 913 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oyster Cove | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bridge Pointe-Kent Island Village | 600 | - |
| Grasonville | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Sudlersville | 497 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beach Harbor | 481 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Springs Mhp | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Queenstown, MD
Look up your address in Town Of Queenstown'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 Town Of Queenstown 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.