Arcadia Water Supply, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.4 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Arcadia Water Supply
Arcadia Water Supply serves about 525 people through 228 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Carroll County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA1403062; phone on file: 712-689-2559. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 4.4 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Arcadia Water Supply is 8.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 8.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Arcadia Water Supply compares
Of the 1,066 Iowa systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.4 ppb; 4 are over 15 ppb right now and 36 have gone over at some point. Arcadia Water Supply's 8.4 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Iowa and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
12 other systems share Carroll County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Arcadia Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Carroll Municipal Water Supply | 10,321 | 8 ppb |
| West Central Rwa - Nish System | 3,573 | 1.7 ppb |
| Manning Water Supply | 1,392 | 2 ppb |
| Coon Rapids Municipal Utilities | 1,242 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glidden Water Supply | 1,140 | 2.1 ppb |
| Breda Water Supply | 502 | 0 (not detected) |
| Templeton Water Supply | 352 | 2.8 ppb |
| Halbur Water Supply | 249 | 4 ppb |
| Dedham Water Supply | 221 | 1 ppb |
| Lidderdale Water Supply | 166 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Arcadia, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Arcadia, IA 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 Arcadia Water Supply 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.