Elizabethtown, IL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2028). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown serves about 220 people through 189 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Hardin County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL0690100; phone on file: 618-287-2191. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elizabethtown is 17.4 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.97 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.18 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.64 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.02 ppb |
| 2016 | 17.4 ppb over 15 |
How Elizabethtown compares
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. Elizabethtown's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Illinois and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
4 other systems share Hardin County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elizabethtown. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Il American-Hardin County | 1,373 | 0 (not detected) |
| Il American-Rosiclare | 1,233 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hardin County Water District No.1 | 843 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cave-In-Rock | 228 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Elizabethtown, IL 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 Elizabethtown 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.