Vigneaults Mobile Home Park, ME
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Vigneaults Mobile Home Park
Vigneaults Mobile Home Park serves about 53 people through 21 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: ME0009003. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Vigneaults Mobile Home Park is 6 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.47 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Vigneaults Mobile Home Park's 1.5 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Maine and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Penobscot County
48 other systems share Penobscot County; 29 of them have a higher latest lead result than Vigneaults Mobile Home Park. 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Orono, 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 Vigneaults Mobile Home Park whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1900 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.