Bigfoot Acres, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.73 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Bigfoot Acres at a glance
Bigfoot Acres serves about 60 people through 22 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Jackson County, Idaho. EPA system ID: OR4101154; phone on file: 208-353-3664. 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 2021 (0.85 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bigfoot Acres is 0.85 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.73 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.85 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.53 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 763 Idaho systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 46 have gone over at some point. Bigfoot Acres's 0.73 ppb sits at the 37th percentile in Idaho and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
1 other system shares Jackson County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bigfoot Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain Village | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for New Plymouth, ID
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Plymouth, ID 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 Bigfoot Acres 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.