Il American-Ferson Creek, IL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Il American-Ferson Creek at a glance
Il American-Ferson Creek serves about 1,134 people through 483 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kane County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL0895800; phone on file: 618-874-2408. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.3 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Il American-Ferson Creek is 14 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 7.4 ppb |
How Il American-Ferson Creek compares
Of the 1,744 Illinois systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 22 are over 15 ppb right now and 152 have gone over at some point. Il American-Ferson Creek's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 33rd percentile in Illinois and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
38 other systems share Kane County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Il American-Ferson Creek. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora | 183,000 | 25.7 ppb |
| Elgin | 114,797 | 18.5 ppb |
| Carpentersville | 37,983 | 1.1 ppb |
| St Charles | 33,081 | 3.9 ppb |
| Montgomery | 28,956 | 0 (not detected) |
| Batavia | 26,098 | 3.82 ppb |
| South Elgin | 23,648 | 1.4 ppb |
| Geneva | 21,247 | 5.35 ppb |
| North Aurora | 18,261 | 6.2 ppb |
| Sugar Grove | 11,243 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Godfrey, IL
Look up your address in Il American-Ferson Creek'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 Il American-Ferson Creek whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1400 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.