Livermore Water Supply, IA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 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. 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 Livermore Water Supply
Livermore Water Supply serves about 383 people through 191 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 Humboldt County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA4647090; phone on file: 515-379-1074. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Livermore Water Supply is 30 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
| 2021 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 9 ppb |
| 2017 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 30 ppb over 15 |
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. Livermore Water Supply's 6 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Iowa and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Humboldt County
7 other systems share Humboldt County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Livermore Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Humboldt Municipal Water Dept | 4,792 | 1 ppb |
| Dakota City Water Supply | 769 | 1 ppb |
| Bode Municipal Water Supply | 304 | 5 ppb |
| Renwick Munic Water Supply | 234 | 2 ppb |
| Thor Water Works | 181 | 4 ppb |
| Rutland Water Supply | 116 | 2 ppb |
| Ottosen Water Supply | 41 | 12 ppb |
Next steps for Livermore, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Livermore, 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 Livermore 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.