Pinehurst Water Dist, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (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. 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.
Pinehurst Water Dist at a glance
Pinehurst Water Dist serves about 1,950 people through 876 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Shoshone County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID1400041; phone on file: 208-682-3611. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pinehurst Water Dist is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pinehurst Water Dist compares
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. Pinehurst Water Dist's 1 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Idaho and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Shoshone County
14 other systems share Shoshone County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pinehurst Water Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Central Shoshone County Water Dist | 6,455 | 1 ppb |
| E Shoshone County Water Dist Wallace | 2,388 | 2 ppb |
| E Shoshone County Water Dist Mullan | 840 | 2 ppb |
| Cataldo Water Dist | 680 | 3 ppb |
| Kingston Water Dist 1 | 585 | 2 ppb |
| Leisure Acres Trailer Court | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avery Water And Sewer Dist | 114 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sunny Acres | 100 | 1 ppb |
| Calder Water And Sewer District | 80 | 1.6 ppb |
| Weir Gulch Water Assn | 80 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pinehurst, ID 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 Pinehurst Water Dist 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.