East Greenacres Irrigation Dist, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (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. 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 East Greenacres Irrigation Dist
East Greenacres Irrigation Dist serves about 11,165 people through 5,552 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Kootenai County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID1280064; phone on file: 208-773-7579. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Greenacres Irrigation Dist is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. East Greenacres Irrigation Dist's 3 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Idaho and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Kootenai County
112 other systems share Kootenai County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Greenacres Irrigation Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Coeur D Alene City Of | 54,115 | 2 ppb |
| Post Falls City Of | 20,285 | 1 ppb |
| Ross Point Water Dist | 10,473 | 2 ppb |
| Rathdrum City Of | 10,358 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hayden Lake Irrigation Dist | 9,375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avondale Irrigation Dist | 8,785 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hillside Service Area | 4,140 | 1 ppb |
| Rimrock Service Area | 3,493 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spirit Lake City Of | 2,825 | 1.6 ppb |
| Dalton Water Assn Inc | 2,602 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Post Falls, 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 East Greenacres Irrigation Dist 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.