Hilltop Farms #3rd Addition, IA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Hilltop Farms #3rd Addition
Hilltop Farms #3rd Addition serves about 26 people through 10 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Muscatine County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA7048320; phone on file: 563-607-0166. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hilltop Farms #3rd Addition is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
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. Hilltop Farms #3rd Addition's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 0th percentile in Iowa and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Muscatine County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hilltop Farms #3rd Addition. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Muscatine Power & Water | 25,516 | 3 ppb |
| West Liberty Water Utility | 3,938 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wilton Water Supply | 2,924 | 6 ppb |
| Ripleys Mhc Ia Llc | 520 | 2.8 ppb |
| Mark Twain Meadows Homeowners | 375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Atalissa Municipal Water Supply | 296 | 1 ppb |
| Park Plaza Mhp Llc | 188 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stockton Muni Water Supply | 176 | 0 (not detected) |
| Louisa Courts Mhp & Sales | 121 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rolling Acres Subdivision | 115 | 6 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Hilltop Farms #3rd Addition'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 Hilltop Farms #3rd Addition 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.