Aviston, IL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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
Aviston serves about 2,545 people through 1,032 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 surface water, in Clinton County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL0270100; phone on file: 618-228-7361. 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 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aviston is 17.6 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 17.6 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Aviston's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 43rd percentile in Illinois and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Clinton County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Aviston. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Breese | 4,772 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Baden | 4,178 | 12.6 ppb |
| Carlyle | 3,373 | 11 ppb |
| Trenton | 2,742 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clinton County East Pwd | 1,950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carlyle North Water Company, Inc. | 1,850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carlyle Southwest Pwd | 1,815 | 0 (not detected) |
| St Rose Pwd | 1,688 | 0 (not detected) |
| Germantown | 1,537 | 0 (not detected) |
| Centralia Correctional Site | 1,397 | - |
Next steps for Aviston, IL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Aviston, 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 Aviston whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1350 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.