Journeys End, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2021). 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.
Journeys End at a glance
Journeys End serves about 180 people through 54 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bingham County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID6060118; phone on file: 208-709-6714. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Journeys End's lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Journeys End is 3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
Against other Idaho systems
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. Journeys End's 3 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Idaho and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Bingham County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Journeys End. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Blackfoot City Of | 13,224 | 3 ppb |
| Shelley City Of | 4,409 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aberdeen City Of | 2,088 | 2 ppb |
| Firth City Of | 511 | 0 (not detected) |
| Basalt City Of | 425 | 0 (not detected) |
| Moreland Water And Sewer District | 364 | 2 ppb |
| Groveland Water And Sewer Dist | 295 | 5 ppb |
| Greenfield Water And Sewer | 240 | 2 ppb |
| Woodville | 225 | 3 ppb |
| Riverview Villa | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Shelley, ID
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Shelley, 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 Journeys End 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.