Cascade City Of, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 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.
Who runs the water here
Cascade City Of serves about 1,000 people through 689 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 Valley County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID4430012; phone on file: 208-382-4279. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3 ppb from 9 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cascade City Of is 9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
| 2021 | 9 ppb |
| 2018 | 9 ppb |
How Cascade City Of compares
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. Cascade City Of's 6 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Idaho and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Valley County
10 other systems share Valley County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cascade City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mccall City Of | 4,423 | 5 ppb |
| Meadows At West Mountain | 550 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fir Grove Estates | 270 | 5 ppb |
| Day Star | 250 | 2 ppb |
| Donnelly City Of | 237 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jughandle Estates | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blackhawk On The River | 150 | 1 ppb |
| Jug Mountain Ranch Subdivision | 100 | 1 ppb |
| Yellow Pine Water Users Inc | 72 | 2 ppb |
| Hawks Bay Estates Hoa Llc | 59 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cascade, 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 Cascade City Of 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.