Grove Shores Mobile Home Community, IL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Grove Shores Mobile Home Community at a glance
Grove Shores Mobile Home Community serves about 100 people through 82 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Polk County, Illinois. EPA system ID: FL6530698; phone on file: 847-656-0400. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Grove Shores Mobile Home Community's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Grove Shores Mobile Home Community is 1.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Grove Shores Mobile Home Community's 1 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Illinois and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Next steps for Skokie, IL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Skokie, IL 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 Grove Shores Mobile Home Community 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.