Juliaetta City Of, ID
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 9.9 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Juliaetta City Of at a glance
Juliaetta City Of serves about 624 people through 283 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Latah County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID2290018; phone on file: 208-276-7791. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Juliaetta City Of's lead record
That is down 13.1 ppb from 23 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Juliaetta City Of is 23 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 9.9 ppb |
| 2025 | 23 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 23 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 12 ppb over 10 |
How Juliaetta City Of 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. Juliaetta City Of's 9.9 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Idaho and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Latah County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Juliaetta City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Moscow Water Dept | 26,000 | 4 ppb |
| University Of Idaho | 8,589 | 5 ppb |
| Genesee City Of | 1,044 | 2.94 ppb |
| Troy City Of | 850 | 5 ppb |
| Potlatch City Of | 812 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deary City Of | 529 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kendrick City Of | 313 | 1 ppb |
| North Tomer Butte W&S District | 259 | 1.21 ppb |
| Bovill Water Dept | 256 | 5.01 ppb |
| Onaway Water And Sewer Assn | 200 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Juliaetta, ID
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Juliaetta, 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 Juliaetta City Of 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.