Larchwood Water Supply, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Larchwood Water Supply
Larchwood Water Supply serves about 926 people through 394 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 groundwater, in Lyon County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA6050059; phone on file: 712-477-2366. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Larchwood Water Supply's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (2.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Larchwood Water Supply is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
Against other Iowa systems
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. Larchwood Water Supply's 2.4 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Iowa and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lyon County
11 other systems share Lyon County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Larchwood Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rock Rapids Municipal Water Works | 2,611 | 1.5 ppb |
| Lyon-Sioux Rws-Doon | 1,765 | 4 ppb |
| Lyon-Sioux Rws-Big Sioux | 1,530 | 4 ppb |
| Lyon-Sioux Rws-Rock Rapids | 1,187 | 2 ppb |
| George Water Supply | 1,082 | 2 ppb |
| Inwood Water Supply | 928 | 2.1 ppb |
| Doon Water Supply | 619 | 4 ppb |
| Lyon-Sioux Rws-Boyden | 605 | 5.3 ppb |
| Little Rock Water Supply | 441 | 9.1 ppb |
| Lester Water Supply | 296 | 2.2 ppb |
Next steps for Larchwood, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Larchwood, 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 Larchwood Water Supply 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.