Elk River City Of, ID
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.69 ppb (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.
Elk River City Of at a glance
Elk River City Of serves about 165 people through 203 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 surface water, in Clearwater County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID2180013; phone on file: 208-826-3209. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.69 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elk River City Of is 27 ppb across 17 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 8.69 ppb |
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
| 2023 | 9 ppb |
| 2022 | 8 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 8 ppb |
| 2020 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 8 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 27 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 10 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 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. Elk River City Of's 8.69 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Idaho and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Clearwater County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elk River City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Orofino City Of | 2,459 | 12 ppb |
| Riverside Water And Sewer District | 2,000 | 3 ppb |
| Pierce City Of | 467 | 4 ppb |
| Weippe City Of | 438 | 5 ppb |
| New Hope Subd | 100 | 48.2 ppb |
| Pleasant Acres Water And Sewer Dist | 89 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ahsahka Water And Sewer Dist | 85 | 10.9 ppb |
| Lakeview Water District | 45 | 1 ppb |
| Sunnyside Park | 40 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wells Bench Water And Road | 28 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Elk River, 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 Elk River City Of 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.