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Kidd Island Bay Water Users, ID

Exceeded the action level in the past

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (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 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.

Kidd Island Bay Water Users at a glance

Kidd Island Bay Water Users serves about 153 people through 61 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kootenai County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID1280104; phone on file: 208-667-6105. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Kidd Island Bay Water Users's lead record

Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kidd Island Bay Water Users is 92 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20252 ppb
20221 ppb
20210 (not detected)
202092 ppb over 15
20171 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. Kidd Island Bay Water Users's 2 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Idaho and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

112 other systems share Kootenai County; 23 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kidd Island Bay Water Users. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Coeur D Alene City Of54,1152 ppb
Post Falls City Of20,2851 ppb
East Greenacres Irrigation Dist11,1653 ppb
Ross Point Water Dist10,4732 ppb
Rathdrum City Of10,3580 (not detected)
Hayden Lake Irrigation Dist9,3750 (not detected)
Avondale Irrigation Dist8,7850 (not detected)
Hillside Service Area4,1401 ppb
Rimrock Service Area3,4930 (not detected)
Spirit Lake City Of2,8251.6 ppb

Next steps for Coeur D Alene, ID

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Coeur D Alene, 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 Kidd Island Bay Water Users 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.