Olivet Pwd, IL
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 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 Olivet Pwd
Olivet Pwd serves about 300 people through 140 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 Vermilion County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL1835300; phone on file: 217-431-2503. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Olivet Pwd is 23 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 6.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 8.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 23 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.9 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. Olivet Pwd's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Illinois and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Vermilion County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Olivet Pwd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aqua Illinois-Vermilion County | 30,106 | 9 ppb |
| Hoopeston | 5,802 | 0 (not detected) |
| Georgetown | 4,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Westville | 3,917 | 1.3 ppb |
| Catlin | 2,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Il American-Oakwood | 1,600 | 2.4 ppb |
| Rossville | 1,331 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ridge Farm | 973 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bismarck Community Water District | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairmount | 690 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Georgetown, IL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Georgetown, 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 Olivet Pwd 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.