Castle Creek Memory Care, IA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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.
About Castle Creek Memory Care
Castle Creek Memory Care serves about 86 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in New Hanover County, Iowa. EPA system ID: NC0465195; phone on file: 641-204-9320. 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 down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Castle Creek Memory Care is 64 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 64 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Castle Creek Memory Care's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Iowa and the 8th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Des Moines, 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 Castle Creek Memory Care 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.