Granville, 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.
Who runs the water here
Granville serves about 1,359 people through 653 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 groundwater, in Putnam County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL1550050; phone on file: 815-339-6333. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 7.72 ppb from 7.72 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Granville is 7.72 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 7.72 ppb |
| 2022 | 5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
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. Granville's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 36th percentile in Illinois and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Putnam County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Granville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hennepin Pwd | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mark | 555 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Thunderbird Subdivsion | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcnabb | 258 | 0 (not detected) |
| Magnolia | 244 | 0 (not detected) |
| Standard | 225 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Park Estates | 185 | 3.72 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Granville'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 Granville 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.