Cottonwood Point Water Assn, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (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. 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.
About Cottonwood Point Water Assn
Cottonwood Point Water Assn serves about 158 people through 64 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Benewah County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID1050008; phone on file: 208-245-3961. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cottonwood Point Water Assn is 8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 8 ppb |
How Cottonwood Point Water Assn 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. Cottonwood Point Water Assn's 4 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Idaho and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Benewah County
8 other systems share Benewah County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cottonwood Point Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| St Maries City Of | 4,173 | 1 ppb |
| Plummer City Of | 1,034 | 1 ppb |
| Fernwood Water Dist | 521 | 1 ppb |
| Santa Water And Sewer Dist | 160 | 1 ppb |
| Tensed City Of | 146 | 3.8 ppb |
| Emida Water And Sewer Association | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Evergreen Terrace Water Association | 85 | 1 ppb |
| Cassandra Hills Owners Assn | 57 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for St Maries, ID
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; St Maries, 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 Cottonwood Point Water Assn 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.