Hospers Municipal Water Dept, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Hospers Municipal Water Dept serves about 718 people through 320 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 surface water, in Sioux County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA8439058; phone on file: 319-830-5215. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.3 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hospers Municipal Water Dept is 6.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.6 ppb |
How Hospers Municipal Water Dept compares
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. Hospers Municipal Water Dept's 6.1 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Iowa and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Sioux County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hospers Municipal Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sioux Center Municipal Water Department | 8,231 | 4.4 ppb |
| Orange City Municipal Water Department | 6,267 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southern Sioux County Rural Water | 5,420 | 2.1 ppb |
| Rock Valley Water Supply | 4,059 | 2 ppb |
| Rural Water System #1 | 3,428 | 1.2 ppb |
| Hawarden Water Supply | 2,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hull Water Supply | 2,384 | 1.8 ppb |
| Rock Valley Rural Water District | 2,250 | 2.4 ppb |
| Alton Municipal Water Department | 1,248 | 0.87 ppb |
| Boyden Municipal Water Supply | 709 | 2.2 ppb |
Next steps for Marshalltown, IA
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 Hospers Municipal Water Dept 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.