Fall Creek Mhp, IL
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 16.4 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Fall Creek Mhp at a glance
Fall Creek Mhp serves about 100 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Dutchess County, Illinois. EPA system ID: NY1302136; phone on file: 845-883-7683. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Fall Creek Mhp's lead record
That is up 15.3 ppb from 1.1 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fall Creek Mhp is 16.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 16.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.3 ppb |
Against other Illinois systems
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. Fall Creek Mhp's 16.4 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Illinois and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
2 other systems share Dutchess County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fall Creek Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Haviland M.H.P. #1 - Andrea & Debra Ct | 78 | 1 ppb |
| Haviland M.H.P. #2 - Jennifer Ct | 53 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Skokie, IL
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Fall Creek Mhp 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.