Orchard View Estates, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Orchard View Estates
Orchard View Estates serves about 78 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Johnson County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA5282304; phone on file: 319-333-4731. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orchard View Estates is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Orchard View Estates compares
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. Orchard View Estates's 1 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Iowa and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Johnson County
74 other systems share Johnson County; 36 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orchard View Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Iowa City Water Department | 68,753 | 4 ppb |
| University Water System | 47,136 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Liberty Water Supply | 23,276 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coralville Muni Water System | 22,318 | 3 ppb |
| Tiffin Water Supply | 7,577 | 0 (not detected) |
| Solon Water Dept | 3,018 | 7 ppb |
| Lone Tree Muni Water System | 1,357 | 2 ppb |
| Lake Ridge, Incorporated | 1,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Modern Manor, Inc | 915 | 1 ppb |
| Hills Water Supply | 863 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Tipton, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tipton, 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 Orchard View Estates 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.