Irua - Pershing Utilities, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
About Irua - Pershing Utilities
Irua - Pershing Utilities serves about 488 people through 198 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 Marion County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA6300800; phone on file: 641-792-7011. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Irua - Pershing Utilities is 1.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.1 ppb |
How Irua - Pershing Utilities 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. Irua - Pershing Utilities's 1.5 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Iowa and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Marion County
12 other systems share Marion County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Irua - Pershing Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pella Water Works Department | 11,052 | 0.7 ppb |
| Knoxville Water Works | 8,400 | 7.8 ppb |
| Marion Co. Rural Water District | 5,687 | 1.9 ppb |
| Pleasantville Water Works | 1,676 | 0 (not detected) |
| Melcher-Dallas Water Supply | 1,213 | 1.4 ppb |
| Bussey Water Supply | 427 | 1.4 ppb |
| Wheel Estates Mhc | 315 | 2.2 ppb |
| Colonial Terrace Mhp Llc | 250 | 4 ppb |
| Sunrise Mill | 237 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marion Co Rwd (Harvey) | 236 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newton, 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 Irua - Pershing Utilities 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.