Paul City Of, ID
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Paul City Of serves about 1,195 people through 635 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 Minidoka County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID5340014; phone on file: 208-438-4181. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Paul City Of's lead record
That is down 4 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Paul City Of is 11 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 9 ppb |
| 2016 | 11 ppb over 10 |
Against other Idaho systems
Of the 763 Idaho systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 46 have gone over at some point. Paul City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 33rd percentile in Idaho and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Minidoka County
7 other systems share Minidoka County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Paul City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rupert City Of | 5,796 | 3 ppb |
| Heyburn City Of | 3,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paul Housing Authority | 250 | 4 ppb |
| Pelican Point Subdivision | 142 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jbs Country Court | 140 | 1.16 ppb |
| Minidoka City Of | 120 | 6 ppb |
| Wayside Estates | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Paul, ID
Look up your address in Paul City Of'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 Paul City Of 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.