Turkey Hill Water Company, 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.
About Turkey Hill Water Company
Turkey Hill Water Company serves about 150 people through 47 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Charles County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0080048; phone on file: 301-934-8814. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Turkey Hill Water Company is 0 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 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | -5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Turkey Hill Water Company's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Maryland and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
48 other systems share Charles County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than Turkey Hill Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Waldorf - Charles County Dpw | 84,296 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of La Plata | 11,535 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bryans Road | 6,260 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Indian Head | 4,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Naval Support Facility, Indian Head | 3,321 | 5.7 ppb |
| Potomac Heights | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Swan Point | 945 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cliffton On The Potomac | 744 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunters Brooke/Falcon Ridge Subd | 614 | 0 (not detected) |
| Charles County Gardens Water | 551 | 1.8 ppb |
Next steps for La Plata, MD
Look up your address in Turkey Hill Water Company'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 Turkey Hill Water Company 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.