East Lynn Community Water System, IL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2020-2022). 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.
Who runs the water here
East Lynn Community Water System serves about 112 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Vermilion County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL1835200; phone on file: 217-375-4472. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.79 ppb from 2.79 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Lynn Community Water System is 2.79 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2.79 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Illinois systems
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. East Lynn Community Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in Illinois and the 10th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Vermilion County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Lynn Community Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aqua Illinois-Vermilion County | 30,106 | 9 ppb |
| Hoopeston | 5,802 | 0 (not detected) |
| Georgetown | 4,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Westville | 3,917 | 1.3 ppb |
| Catlin | 2,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Il American-Oakwood | 1,600 | 2.4 ppb |
| Rossville | 1,331 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ridge Farm | 973 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bismarck Community Water District | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairmount | 690 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in East Lynn Community Water System'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 East Lynn Community Water System 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.