Idaho Youth Ranch Hands Of Promise, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.59 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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
Idaho Youth Ranch Hands Of Promise serves about 95 people through 7 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Canyon County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID3140274; phone on file: 208-888-3000. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Idaho Youth Ranch Hands Of Promise is 3 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.59 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
How Idaho Youth Ranch Hands Of Promise compares
Of the 763 Idaho systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 46 have gone over at some point. Idaho Youth Ranch Hands Of Promise's 0.59 ppb sits at the 37th percentile in Idaho and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
82 other systems share Canyon County; 52 of them have a higher latest lead result than Idaho Youth Ranch Hands Of Promise. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Nampa City Of | 100,200 | 1 ppb |
| Caldwell City Of | 78,740 | 0 (not detected) |
| Middleton City Of | 13,190 | 2 ppb |
| Parma City Of | 2,250 | 1 ppb |
| Wilder City Of | 1,690 | 5 ppb |
| Caldwell Housing Authority | 1,100 | 9 ppb |
| Greenleaf City Of | 846 | 2 ppb |
| Melba City Of | 648 | 3 ppb |
| Notus City Of | 539 | 2 ppb |
| Shalimar Subd | 370 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Notus, ID
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Notus, ID 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 Idaho Youth Ranch Hands Of Promise whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1900 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.