Pekin Fed Correctional Inst And Prsncmp, IL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Pekin Fed Correctional Inst And Prsncmp at a glance
Pekin Fed Correctional Inst And Prsncmp serves about 1,635 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Tazewell County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL1790030; phone on file: 309-346-8588. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.3 ppb from 2.3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pekin Fed Correctional Inst And Prsncmp is 2.3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.3 ppb |
How Pekin Fed Correctional Inst And Prsncmp compares
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. Pekin Fed Correctional Inst And Prsncmp's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 38th percentile in Illinois and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Tazewell County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pekin Fed Correctional Inst And Prsncmp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Il American-Pekin | 31,731 | 1 ppb |
| East Peoria | 22,484 | 7 ppb |
| Morton | 17,117 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington | 14,793 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Tazewell Pwd | 7,625 | 5.1 ppb |
| Creve Coeur | 4,934 | 2.1 ppb |
| Mackinaw | 3,399 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marquette Heights | 2,974 | 1.02 ppb |
| Groveland Township Water District | 2,185 | 5.2 ppb |
| Tremont | 2,114 | 1.2 ppb |
Next steps for Pekin, IL
Look up your address in Pekin Fed Correctional Inst And Prsncmp'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 Pekin Fed Correctional Inst And Prsncmp whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.