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Blackhawk Estates/Iron Rim, ID

Exceeded the action level in the past

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.

Blackhawk Estates/Iron Rim at a glance

Blackhawk Estates/Iron Rim serves about 270 people through 107 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bonneville County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID7100207; phone on file: 208-390-7073. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Blackhawk Estates/Iron Rim's lead record

That is down 3 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blackhawk Estates/Iron Rim is 25 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20253 ppb
20226 ppb
202113 ppb over 10
20205 ppb
20195 ppb
20197 ppb
201825 ppb over 15
20167 ppb
20169.66 ppb

Against other Idaho systems

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. Blackhawk Estates/Iron Rim's 3 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Idaho and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

32 other systems share Bonneville County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blackhawk Estates/Iron Rim. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Idaho Falls City Of69,4503 ppb
Falls Water Company Inc22,6503 ppb
Ammon City Of17,3380 (not detected)
Iona Water Dept2,7171 ppb
Comore Loma1,6261 ppb
Ucon City Of1,1610 (not detected)
3d Water Association6801 ppb
Taylor Mountain Water And Sewer District6000 (not detected)
J And K Water Corp3703 ppb
Country Life Estates2500 (not detected)

Next steps for Daho Falls, ID

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Daho Falls, 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 Blackhawk Estates/Iron Rim 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.