Wakefield Valley, MD
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Wakefield Valley
Wakefield Valley serves about 2,436 people through 500 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Carroll County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0060017; phone on file: 410-848-1566. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Wakefield Valley's lead record
That is down 5 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wakefield Valley is 5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 5 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.7 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. Wakefield Valley's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 42nd percentile in Maryland and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Carroll County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wakefield Valley. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Westminster | 35,256 | 0 (not detected) |
| Freedom District | 24,867 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Mount Airy | 9,890 | 1.4 ppb |
| City Of Taneytown | 6,750 | 3 ppb |
| Town Of Hampstead | 6,600 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Manchester | 4,954 | 1.16 ppb |
| Town Of New Windsor | 1,732 | 2.8 ppb |
| Springfield Hospital Distribution | 1,500 | - |
| Town Of Union Bridge | 997 | 4 ppb |
| Gaither Manor Apartments | 450 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Wakefield Valley'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 Wakefield Valley 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.