Beecher City, IL
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12.1 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. 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.
Beecher City at a glance
Beecher City serves about 500 people through 260 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Effingham County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL0490100; phone on file: 618-487-5315. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 12.1 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Beecher City is 13 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 12.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 6.55 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.02 ppb |
How Beecher City compares
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. Beecher City's 12.1 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Illinois and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Effingham County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Beecher City. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Effingham | 12,252 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lake Sara Area Water Co-Op, Inc. | 4,071 | 0 (not detected) |
| Altamont | 2,610 | 1.3 ppb |
| Teutopolis | 2,018 | 0 (not detected) |
| Heartville Pwd | 1,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dieterich | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ej Water-Watson | 754 | 1.7 ppb |
| Edgewood | 440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ej Water-Montrose | 201 | 1 ppb |
| Snake Trail Wtr Assn | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Beecher City, IL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Beecher City, 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 Beecher City 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.