Blairs Ferry Manor, IA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
About Blairs Ferry Manor
Blairs Ferry Manor serves about 65 people through 28 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Linn County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA5784316; phone on file: 319-350-5976. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 6 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blairs Ferry Manor is 12 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 6 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
How Blairs Ferry Manor compares
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. Blairs Ferry Manor's 12 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Iowa and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
39 other systems share Linn County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blairs Ferry Manor. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cedar Rapids Water Department | 142,364 | 1.62 ppb |
| Marion Municipal Water Dept | 41,623 | 8.3 ppb |
| Hiawatha Water Dept | 7,183 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Vernon Water Supply | 4,527 | 1 ppb |
| Fairfax Water Supply | 2,828 | 2 ppb |
| Center Point Water Supply | 2,579 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ely Water Supply | 2,328 | 4 ppb |
| Lisbon Water Supply | 2,233 | 1.7 ppb |
| Palo Water Supply | 1,407 | 1.6 ppb |
| Central City Water Supply | 1,264 | 3 ppb |
Next steps for Urbana, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Urbana, 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 Blairs Ferry Manor 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.