Croppers 1st 4th And 5th Addition, IL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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.
Who runs the water here
Croppers 1st 4th And 5th Addition serves about 495 people through 198 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rock Island County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL1615250; phone on file: 309-373-2579. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Croppers 1st 4th And 5th Addition is 4.88 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 4.88 ppb |
How Croppers 1st 4th And 5th Addition compares
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. Croppers 1st 4th And 5th Addition's 0.8 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Illinois and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
46 other systems share Rock Island County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Croppers 1st 4th And 5th Addition. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Moline | 44,500 | 1.3 ppb |
| Rock Island | 39,018 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Moline | 21,374 | 16 ppb |
| Rock Island Arsenal, Us Army | 7,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Silvis | 7,473 | 4.1 ppb |
| Milan | 4,945 | 7.18 ppb |
| Coal Valley | 3,873 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carbon Cliff | 2,134 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hampton | 1,863 | 1.3 ppb |
| Port Byron | 1,668 | 6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Milan, IL 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 Croppers 1st 4th And 5th Addition 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.