Aqua Illinois-Skyline (Northern), IL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Aqua Illinois-Skyline (Northern) serves about 1,200 people through 375 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kane County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL0895030; phone on file: 224-602-6779. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aqua Illinois-Skyline (Northern) is 1.6 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Illinois systems
Of the 1,744 Illinois systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 22 are over 15 ppb right now and 152 have gone over at some point. Aqua Illinois-Skyline (Northern)'s 1.6 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in Illinois and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Kane County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Aqua Illinois-Skyline (Northern). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora | 183,000 | 25.7 ppb |
| Elgin | 114,797 | 18.5 ppb |
| Carpentersville | 37,983 | 1.1 ppb |
| St Charles | 33,081 | 3.9 ppb |
| Montgomery | 28,956 | 0 (not detected) |
| Batavia | 26,098 | 3.82 ppb |
| South Elgin | 23,648 | 1.4 ppb |
| Geneva | 21,247 | 5.35 ppb |
| North Aurora | 18,261 | 6.2 ppb |
| Sugar Grove | 11,243 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glenview, IL 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 Aqua Illinois-Skyline (Northern) whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1515 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.