Berea Heights Inc, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.91 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Berea Heights Inc at a glance
Berea Heights Inc serves about 33 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Woodbury County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA9778301; phone on file: 712-898-8840. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Berea Heights Inc is 1.32 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.91 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.32 ppb |
Against other Iowa systems
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. Berea Heights Inc's 0.91 ppb sits at the 38th percentile in Iowa and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Woodbury County
16 other systems share Woodbury County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Berea Heights Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sioux City Water Supply | 85,791 | 2 ppb |
| Sergeant Bluff Water Supply | 5,015 | 4 ppb |
| Moville Water Supply | 1,687 | 0.82 ppb |
| Sloan Water Supply | 1,042 | 0.93 ppb |
| Lawton Water Supply | 988 | 4.3 ppb |
| Correctionville Water Supply | 766 | 0.8 ppb |
| Anthon Municipal Water System | 545 | 1.8 ppb |
| Pierson Water Supply | 345 | 0.8 ppb |
| Danbury Water Supply | 320 | 1.2 ppb |
| Salix Water Supply | 295 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sioux City, 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 Berea Heights Inc 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.