Freeport Water District, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Freeport Water District at a glance
Freeport Water District serves about 775 people through 292 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Winneshiek County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA9630001; phone on file: 563-380-9152. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Freeport Water District's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Freeport Water District is 1.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.8 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. Freeport Water District's 1.8 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Iowa and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Winneshiek County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Freeport Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Decorah Water Department | 7,615 | 9.4 ppb |
| Calmar Water Supply | 1,125 | 3.7 ppb |
| Ossian Water Supply | 802 | 5.1 ppb |
| Spillville Water Supply | 371 | 5.8 ppb |
| Fort Atkinson Water Works | 347 | 2.5 ppb |
| Ridgeway, City Of | 275 | 4.8 ppb |
| Castalia Water Works | 145 | 0.6 ppb |
| Frankville Rwd | 135 | 2 ppb |
| Scenic View Estates | 78 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sherman Place Water & Road, Inc. | 73 | 4 ppb |
Next steps for Decorah, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Decorah, 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 Freeport Water District 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.