Hilltop Village Mhc, Inc., IA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Village Mhc, Inc.
Hilltop Village Mhc, Inc. serves about 78 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cherokee County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA1800601; phone on file: 712-299-0688. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Hilltop Village Mhc, Inc.'s lead record
That is down 3.3 ppb from 3.3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hilltop Village Mhc, Inc. is 5.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.8 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 Village Mhc, Inc.'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in Iowa and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Cherokee County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hilltop Village Mhc, Inc.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cherokee Water Supply - Plant 1 | 5,199 | 1.5 ppb |
| Cherokee Rws - Cherokee Subsystem | 3,315 | 2.2 ppb |
| Cherokee Rws- Mill Creek Subsystem | 1,451 | 11.6 ppb |
| Marcus Water Supply | 1,079 | 1.5 ppb |
| Aurelia Water Supply | 968 | 1.5 ppb |
| Quimby Water Supply | 249 | 0.5 ppb |
| Cleghorn Water Supply | 247 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washta Water Supply | 209 | 1.2 ppb |
| Meriden Municipal Water Supply | 161 | 3 ppb |
| Larrabee Municipal Water Works | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Hilltop Village Mhc, Inc.'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 Village Mhc, Inc. 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.