Brookside Meadows Mhp, IL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.8 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2021). 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.
Brookside Meadows Mhp at a glance
Brookside Meadows Mhp serves about 250 people through 191 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Illinois. EPA system ID: WI2671738. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Brookside Meadows Mhp's lead record
Against the period ending 2018 (3.78 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brookside Meadows Mhp is 3.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.78 ppb |
How Brookside Meadows Mhp 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. Brookside Meadows Mhp's 3.8 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Illinois and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Washington County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Brookside Meadows Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Washington County Water Company | 12,040 | 2 ppb |
| Nashville | 3,230 | 0 (not detected) |
| Okawville | 1,457 | 2.1 ppb |
| Irvington | 1,081 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hoyleton Rwc | 1,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hoyleton | 658 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ashley | 565 | 1.9 ppb |
| New Minden | 343 | 0 (not detected) |
| Richview | 251 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dubois | 200 | 2.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Northbrook, 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 Brookside Meadows Mhp 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.