Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park, DE
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.5 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park
Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park serves about 325 people through 103 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cecil County, Delaware. EPA system ID: MD0070213. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park's lead record
That is up 6 ppb from 5.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park is 11.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 8 ppb |
| 2016 | 7 ppb |
How Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park compares
Of the 196 Delaware systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.31 ppb; 1 are over 15 ppb right now and 14 have gone over at some point. Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park's 11.5 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Delaware and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Cecil County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elkton West | 3,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountain Hill Water Company | 2,154 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Hills | 953 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Deposit | 725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harbor View | 437 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carpenters Point Water Co. | 400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cecil Woods Mobile Home Park Wtp | 285 | 1.3 ppb |
| Route 7 Distribution System | 100 | - |
| Chestnut Point Estates Wtp | 82 | - |
Next steps for New Castle, DE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Castle, DE 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 Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.