Foxwood Farms, IL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Foxwood Farms serves about 332 people through 412 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Marion County, Illinois. EPA system ID: FL6420619; phone on file: 312-279-1400. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Foxwood Farms's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (1.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Foxwood Farms is 17.2 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 17.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Foxwood Farms's 1.5 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Illinois and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Marion County
16 other systems share Marion County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Foxwood Farms. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Centralia | 12,182 | 2.8 ppb |
| Salem | 7,905 | 2.1 ppb |
| Raccoon Water Company | 7,080 | 0 (not detected) |
| North East Marion County Water Cmpny | 3,220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fmc Water Company | 2,945 | 0 (not detected) |
| Odin | 2,543 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sandoval | 1,422 | 10 ppb |
| Walnut Hill | 1,180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wamac | 1,030 | 2.4 ppb |
| Kinmundy | 940 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Chicago, 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 Foxwood Farms 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.