Franklin Park, IL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 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.
About Franklin Park
Franklin Park serves about 18,467 people through 5,901 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Cook County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL0310960; phone on file: 847-671-8253. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 5.68 ppb from 5.68 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Franklin Park is 8.18 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 5.68 ppb |
| 2025 | 8.18 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Franklin Park compares
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. Franklin Park's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 53rd percentile in Illinois and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Cook County
154 other systems share Cook County; 99 of them have a higher latest lead result than Franklin Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago | 2,721,308 | 6.4 ppb |
| Cicero | 83,000 | 5 ppb |
| Schaumburg | 75,750 | 0.87 ppb |
| Evanston | 74,486 | 6.5 ppb |
| Arlington Heights | 73,320 | 7.6 ppb |
| Palatine | 70,875 | 8.9 ppb |
| Skokie | 66,422 | 9.77 ppb |
| Des Plaines | 60,675 | 5.7 ppb |
| Oak Lawn | 58,362 | 9.3 ppb |
| Orland Park | 58,020 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Franklin Park, IL
Look up your address in Franklin Park'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 Franklin Park 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.