Lakewood Utilities, IA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
About Lakewood Utilities
Lakewood Utilities serves about 135 people through 70 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Webster County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA9433324; phone on file: 515-351-8879. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lakewood Utilities is 120 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 120 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Lakewood Utilities's 4 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Iowa and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Webster County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Lakewood Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Dodge Water Supply | 25,874 | 1 ppb |
| Gowrie Muni Utilities Water Dept | 954 | 3 ppb |
| Dayton Municipal Water Supply | 772 | 0 (not detected) |
| Badger Water Supply | 561 | 1 ppb |
| Otho Water Supply | 431 | 1 ppb |
| Palace Park Mhc | 426 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lehigh Water Supply | 395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Duncombe Water Supply | 384 | 0 (not detected) |
| Callender Water Supply | 371 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harcourt Water Supply | 265 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Dodge, 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 Lakewood 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.