Elgin Municipal Water Supply, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.5 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 Elgin Municipal Water Supply
Elgin Municipal Water Supply serves about 685 people through 350 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 groundwater, in Fayette County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA3338010; phone on file: 563-426-5998. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3 ppb from 11.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elgin Municipal Water Supply is 11.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 8.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 11.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 10.9 ppb over 10 |
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. Elgin Municipal Water Supply's 8.5 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Iowa and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Fayette County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Elgin Municipal Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oelwein Municipal Water Works | 5,920 | 4.17 ppb |
| West Union Water Supply | 2,540 | 3 ppb |
| Fayette Water Supply | 1,256 | 4.5 ppb |
| Clermont Water Supply | 586 | 6.8 ppb |
| Maynard Water Supply | 476 | 0.6 ppb |
| Hawkeye Water Supply | 438 | 0.8 ppb |
| Arlington Water Supply | 419 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waucoma Water Supply | 229 | 9.6 ppb |
| Wadena Water System | 209 | 0.8 ppb |
| Westgate Water Supply | 192 | 4.2 ppb |
Next steps for Elgin, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Elgin, 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 Elgin Municipal 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.