Lost Nation Water Supply, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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
Lost Nation Water Supply serves about 434 people through 249 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 Clinton County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA2346047; phone on file: 563-678-2443. 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 2.6 ppb from 2.4 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lost Nation Water Supply is 5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 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. Lost Nation Water Supply's 5 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Iowa and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Clinton County
15 other systems share Clinton County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lost Nation Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Iowa-American Wtr Co-Clinton District | 24,769 | 2 ppb |
| De Witt Water Supply | 5,514 | 3.4 ppb |
| Camanche Water Supply | 4,570 | 2 ppb |
| Wheatland City Water Supply | 775 | 3.2 ppb |
| Grand Mound Water Supply | 615 | 0 (not detected) |
| Delmar Water Supply | 542 | 2 ppb |
| Charlotte Water Works | 401 | 0 (not detected) |
| Calamus Water Supply | 356 | 0 (not detected) |
| Iowa-American Water (Low Moor) | 250 | 1.6 ppb |
| Goose Lake Muni Water System | 239 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Lost Nation, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lost Nation, 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 Lost Nation 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.