Maroa, IL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Maroa at a glance
Maroa serves about 1,700 people through 770 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 Macon County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL1150300; phone on file: 217-794-3842. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 3.72 ppb from 3.72 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Maroa is 3.72 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 3.72 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Maroa's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 39th percentile in Illinois and the 30th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Macon County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Maroa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Decatur | 76,122 | 2.6 ppb |
| Long Creek Township Pws | 7,850 | 2.8 ppb |
| Mount Zion | 5,833 | 6.8 ppb |
| Forsyth | 3,490 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harristown | 1,320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blue Mound | 1,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Warrensburg | 1,230 | 7 ppb |
| Macon | 1,205 | 0 (not detected) |
| Argenta | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oreana | 892 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Maroa, IL
Look up your address in Maroa's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Maroa whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1700 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.