Little Rock Water Supply, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 9.1 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Little Rock Water Supply serves about 441 people through 235 service connections, which makes it a very 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: IA6060006; phone on file: 712-339-1119. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Little Rock Water Supply's lead record
That is up 5.2 ppb from 3.9 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Little Rock Water Supply is 9.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 9.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.2 ppb |
How Little Rock Water Supply compares
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. Little Rock Water Supply's 9.1 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Iowa and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Lyon County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Little Rock 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 |
| Larchwood Water Supply | 926 | 2.4 ppb |
| Doon Water Supply | 619 | 4 ppb |
| Lyon-Sioux Rws-Boyden | 605 | 5.3 ppb |
| Lester Water Supply | 296 | 2.2 ppb |
Next steps for Little Rock, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Little Rock, 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 Little Rock 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.