Eldridge Water Supply, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
Eldridge Water Supply at a glance
Eldridge Water Supply serves about 6,726 people through 2,982 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Scott County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA8230008; phone on file: 563-285-4841. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.7 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Eldridge Water Supply is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 1,066 Iowa systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.4 ppb; 4 are over 15 ppb right now and 36 have gone over at some point. Eldridge Water Supply's 1.3 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Iowa and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
47 other systems share Scott County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Eldridge Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Iowa-American Wtr Co-Davenport | 147,720 | 1 ppb |
| Park View Water & Sanitary District | 2,389 | 1 ppb |
| Walcott Waterworks | 1,551 | 0 (not detected) |
| Buffalo Water Supply | 1,176 | 0 (not detected) |
| Princeton Water Supply | 923 | 5.2 ppb |
| Long Grove Muni Water Supply | 838 | 1.5 ppb |
| Iowa American Water Donahue | 335 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ponderosa Park Mhp | 320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Oaks Homeowners Assn | 250 | 2 ppb |
| Dodds Valley View Water Assn | 220 | 5.4 ppb |
Next steps for Eldridge, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eldridge, IA 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 Eldridge Water Supply 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.