Villas At Cattail Creek, MD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 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. 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 Villas At Cattail Creek
Villas At Cattail Creek serves about 170 people through 93 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Howard County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0130005. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.8 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Villas At Cattail Creek is 3.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.8 ppb |
How Villas At Cattail Creek 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. Villas At Cattail Creek's 1.8 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Maryland and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Howard County
3 other systems share Howard County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Villas At Cattail Creek. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Howard County D.P.W. Distribution | 286,158 | 3 ppb |
| Lutheran Village At Miller'S Grant | 315 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lighthouse Senior Living Ellicott City | 113 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Reistertown, MD 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 Villas At Cattail Creek 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.