Dover City Of, ID
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Dover City Of
Dover City Of serves about 865 people through 346 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 surface water, in Bonner County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID1090193; phone on file: 208-265-8339. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 12 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dover City Of is 14 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
How Dover 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. Dover City Of's 14 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Idaho and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
49 other systems share Bonner County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dover City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sandpoint Public Works Dept | 12,284 | 4 ppb |
| Priest River City Of | 2,173 | 4 ppb |
| Oden Water Assn Inc | 1,524 | 1 ppb |
| Schweitzer Basin Water Company | 955 | 6 ppb |
| Stoneridge Utilities | 940 | 2 ppb |
| Clark Fork City Of | 730 | 2 ppb |
| Sagle Valley Water Dist | 708 | 0 (not detected) |
| Laclede Water Dist | 668 | 2 ppb |
| Southside Water And Sewer Dist | 615 | 4 ppb |
| Syringa Heights Water Dist | 550 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Dover, ID
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dover, 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 Dover 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.