Town Of Walkersville, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2016-2018). 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.
About Town Of Walkersville
Town Of Walkersville serves about 8,440 people through 2,857 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Frederick County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0100025; phone on file: 301-524-5063. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Town Of Walkersville's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Walkersville is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Town Of Walkersville compares
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 Walkersville's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 47th percentile in Maryland and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Frederick County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Walkersville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| New Design - Frederick County | 74,911 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Frederick | 54,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Fort Detrick | 7,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Brunswick | 7,312 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Thurmont | 6,200 | 4 ppb |
| Town Of Middletown | 5,132 | - |
| Town Of Emmitsburg | 2,921 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Saint Marys University | 2,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fountaindale South | 2,610 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Myersville | 2,000 | 2.4 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Town Of Walkersville'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 Walkersville 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.