Fox Valley Acres, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Fox Valley Acres
Fox Valley Acres serves about 36 people through 14 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Muscatine County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA7048319. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.4 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fox Valley Acres is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
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. Fox Valley Acres's 0.6 ppb sits at the 34th percentile in Iowa and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Muscatine County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fox Valley Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Muscatine Power & Water | 25,516 | 3 ppb |
| West Liberty Water Utility | 3,938 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wilton Water Supply | 2,924 | 6 ppb |
| Ripleys Mhc Ia Llc | 520 | 2.8 ppb |
| Mark Twain Meadows Homeowners | 375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Atalissa Municipal Water Supply | 296 | 1 ppb |
| Park Plaza Mhp Llc | 188 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stockton Muni Water Supply | 176 | 0 (not detected) |
| Louisa Courts Mhp & Sales | 121 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rolling Acres Subdivision | 115 | 6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Muscatine, 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 Fox Valley Acres 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.