Charlotte Water Works, IA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Charlotte Water Works at a glance
Charlotte Water Works serves about 401 people through 166 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Clinton County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA2324016; phone on file: 563-212-0543. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Charlotte Water Works is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
Against other Iowa systems
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. Charlotte Water Works's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th percentile in Iowa and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Clinton County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Charlotte Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Iowa-American Wtr Co-Clinton District | 24,769 | 2 ppb |
| De Witt Water Supply | 5,514 | 3.4 ppb |
| Camanche Water Supply | 4,570 | 2 ppb |
| Wheatland City Water Supply | 775 | 3.2 ppb |
| Grand Mound Water Supply | 615 | 0 (not detected) |
| Delmar Water Supply | 542 | 2 ppb |
| Lost Nation Water Supply | 434 | 5 ppb |
| Calamus Water Supply | 356 | 0 (not detected) |
| Iowa-American Water (Low Moor) | 250 | 1.6 ppb |
| Goose Lake Muni Water System | 239 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Charlotte Water Works'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 Charlotte Water Works 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.