Town Of Ridgely, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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 Ridgely at a glance
Town Of Ridgely serves about 1,600 people through 740 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 Caroline County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0050006; phone on file: 410-634-1975. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Ridgely is 1.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2016 | -1 ppb |
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 Ridgely's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 40th percentile in Maryland and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Caroline County
15 other systems share Caroline County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Town Of Ridgely. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Denton | 4,848 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Federalsburg | 2,450 | 2.5 ppb |
| Town Of Greensboro | 1,878 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Preston | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Caroline Acres Mobile Home Park | 395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Benedictine School | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Mobile Home Park | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Henderson | 156 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jonestown Water System | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nelpine Mobile Home Park | 70 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Town Of Ridgely'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 Ridgely 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.