Goodell Water Supply, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Goodell Water Supply at a glance
Goodell Water Supply serves about 140 people through 70 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Hancock County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA4135093; phone on file: 515-571-7654. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Goodell Water Supply's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Goodell Water Supply is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Goodell Water Supply compares
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. Goodell Water Supply's 3 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Iowa and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Hancock County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Goodell Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Garner Water Works | 3,065 | 2 ppb |
| Britt Water Works | 2,064 | 3 ppb |
| Kanawha Water Supply | 658 | 2.53 ppb |
| Klemme Water Works | 441 | 0 (not detected) |
| Corwith Water Supply | 266 | 2 ppb |
| Crystal Lake Water Supply | 255 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woden Water Supply | 188 | 4 ppb |
Next steps for Goodell, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Goodell, 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 Goodell Water Supply 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.