Lynn Water Association, Inc, IL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.2 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Lynn Water Association, Inc at a glance
Lynn Water Association, Inc serves about 100 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Henry County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL0735100; phone on file: 309-781-5585. 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 down 21.8 ppb from 25 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lynn Water Association, Inc is 25 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 25 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 4.3 ppb |
How Lynn Water Association, Inc compares
Of the 1,744 Illinois systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 22 are over 15 ppb right now and 152 have gone over at some point. Lynn Water Association, Inc's 3.2 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Illinois and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
38 other systems share Henry County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lynn Water Association, Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kewanee | 12,509 | 3.3 ppb |
| Geneseo | 6,539 | 2.7 ppb |
| Colona West | 2,640 | 1.6 ppb |
| Colona East | 2,501 | 1 ppb |
| Galva | 2,449 | 1.4 ppb |
| Cambridge | 2,086 | 1.3 ppb |
| Orion | 1,754 | 5.5 ppb |
| Atkinson | 955 | 2.85 ppb |
| Annawan | 843 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodhull | 771 | 1.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lynn Center, IL 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 Lynn Water Association, Inc whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1400 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.