Hastings Water Supply, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 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.
About Hastings Water Supply
Hastings Water Supply serves about 152 people through 88 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 Mills County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA6527038; phone on file: 712-542-3259. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hastings Water Supply is 0.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Iowa systems
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. Hastings Water Supply's 0.6 ppb sits at the 34th percentile in Iowa and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Mills County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hastings Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Glenwood Municipal Utilities | 5,449 | 0.8 ppb |
| Malvern Water Supply | 1,046 | 0 (not detected) |
| Emerson Water Department | 412 | 4 ppb |
| Silver City Water Supply | 245 | 0 (not detected) |
| Henderson Water Department | 144 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pony Creek #1 Hoa | 125 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Marshalltown, 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 Hastings 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.