Franklin City Of, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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.
Franklin City Of at a glance
Franklin City Of serves about 1,000 people through 340 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Franklin County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID6210007; phone on file: 801-592-3313. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Franklin City Of is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 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. Franklin City Of's 3 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Idaho and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Franklin County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Franklin City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Preston City Of | 5,591 | 2 ppb |
| Fairview Water Dist | 1,300 | 3 ppb |
| Dayton City Of | 510 | 2 ppb |
| Weston City Of | 490 | 1 ppb |
| Clifton City Of | 413 | 1 ppb |
| Whitney Nashville Water Works | 403 | 0 (not detected) |
| Banida Water And Sewer Dist | 180 | 1 ppb |
| Cub River Acres | 180 | 7 ppb |
| Birch Creek Culinary | 120 | 1 ppb |
| Preston Eastside Water Co | 120 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Franklin, ID
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Franklin, 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 Franklin 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.