Towne Center-Ridgewood Apartments, ME
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.7 ppb (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 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 Towne Center-Ridgewood Apartments
Towne Center-Ridgewood Apartments serves about 60 people through 24 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Penobscot County, Maine. EPA system ID: ME0091373; phone on file: 207-561-4700. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.1 ppb from 3.6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Towne Center-Ridgewood Apartments is 15.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 11.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 11.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 15.3 ppb over 15 |
Against other Maine systems
Of the 358 Maine systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.5 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 40 have gone over at some point. Towne Center-Ridgewood Apartments's 5.7 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Maine and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
48 other systems share Penobscot County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Towne Center-Ridgewood Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bangor Water District | 27,298 | 7.45 ppb |
| Brewer Water Department | 8,860 | 2.1 ppb |
| Old Town Water District | 7,648 | 7.9 ppb |
| Orono-Veazie Water District | 5,793 | 10 ppb |
| Maine Water Company Millinocket Division | 5,400 | 2.8 ppb |
| Hampden Water District | 4,800 | 2.52 ppb |
| Lincoln Water District | 3,020 | 0.96 ppb |
| Dexter Utility District | 2,338 | 4.9 ppb |
| East Millinocket Water Works | 2,133 | 2.8 ppb |
| Newport Water District | 1,900 | 1.3 ppb |
Next steps for Bangor, ME
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bangor, ME 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 Towne Center-Ridgewood Apartments 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.