West Nottingham Academy, MD
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
West Nottingham Academy serves about 250 people through 10 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cecil County, Maryland. EPA system ID: MD0070204; phone on file: 443-566-0363. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 22.5 ppb from 23.8 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for West Nottingham Academy is 23.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 23.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How West Nottingham Academy 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. West Nottingham Academy's 1.3 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Maryland and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Cecil County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than West Nottingham Academy. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Elkton | 15,625 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of North East | 8,600 | 1 ppb |
| Town Of Perryville | 4,413 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Charlestown | 3,791 | 2 ppb |
| Town Of Rising Sun | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Perry Point V.A. Medical Center | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town & Country Mobile Home Park | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Chesapeake City [Formerly South] | 673 | - |
| Crystal Beach Manor/T&C Utility | 500 | 13.3 ppb |
| Town Of Cecilton | 477 | 16 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Colora, 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 West Nottingham Academy whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 4950 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.