Camden-Littleton Water Commission, IL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2028). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Camden-Littleton Water Commission serves about 1,000 people through 400 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Schuyler County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL1695100; phone on file: 217-242-1980. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Camden-Littleton Water Commission's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Camden-Littleton Water Commission is 10 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 10 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.9 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Camden-Littleton Water Commission's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 31st percentile in Illinois and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
4 other systems share Schuyler County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Camden-Littleton Water Commission. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rushville | 3,375 | 4.1 ppb |
| Hickory-Kerton Wtr Coop | 2,358 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dhs Rushville Treatment And Detention | 565 | 0 (not detected) |
| Browning | 117 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Camden-Littleton Water Commission's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Camden-Littleton Water Commission whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2500 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.