Emida Water And Sewer Association, ID
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Emida Water And Sewer Association at a glance
Emida Water And Sewer Association serves about 120 people through 48 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 Benewah County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID1050009; phone on file: 208-582-6314. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Emida Water And Sewer Association's lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Emida Water And Sewer Association is 2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 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. Emida Water And Sewer Association's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in Idaho and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Benewah County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Emida Water And Sewer Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| St Maries City Of | 4,173 | 1 ppb |
| Plummer City Of | 1,034 | 1 ppb |
| Fernwood Water Dist | 521 | 1 ppb |
| Santa Water And Sewer Dist | 160 | 1 ppb |
| Cottonwood Point Water Assn | 158 | 4 ppb |
| Tensed City Of | 146 | 3.8 ppb |
| Evergreen Terrace Water Association | 85 | 1 ppb |
| Cassandra Hills Owners Assn | 57 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Emida Water And Sewer Association'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 Emida Water And Sewer Association 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.