Iowa American Water Donahue, IA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Iowa American Water Donahue serves about 335 people through 123 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Scott County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA8227045; phone on file: 563-726-0937. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Iowa American Water Donahue is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Iowa American Water Donahue's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 15th percentile in Iowa and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Scott County
47 other systems share Scott County; 36 of them have a higher latest lead result than Iowa American Water Donahue. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Iowa-American Wtr Co-Davenport | 147,720 | 1 ppb |
| Eldridge Water Supply | 6,726 | 1.3 ppb |
| Park View Water & Sanitary District | 2,389 | 1 ppb |
| Walcott Waterworks | 1,551 | 0 (not detected) |
| Buffalo Water Supply | 1,176 | 0 (not detected) |
| Princeton Water Supply | 923 | 5.2 ppb |
| Long Grove Muni Water Supply | 838 | 1.5 ppb |
| Ponderosa Park Mhp | 320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Oaks Homeowners Assn | 250 | 2 ppb |
| Dodds Valley View Water Assn | 220 | 5.4 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Iowa American Water Donahue'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 Iowa American Water Donahue 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.