North Hills Mhp, IL

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.55 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2021). 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.

About North Hills Mhp

North Hills Mhp serves about 420 people through 142 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Dodge County, Illinois. EPA system ID: WI1140439. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.

Every lead result on file

Against the period ending 2019 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for North Hills Mhp is 2.55 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

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. North Hills Mhp's 2.55 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Illinois and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).

Next steps for Barrington, IL

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Barrington, 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 North Hills Mhp 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.