Pingree Grove, IL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
About Pingree Grove
Pingree Grove serves about 10,365 people through 4,199 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Kane County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL0890160; phone on file: 847-464-5533. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Pingree Grove's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0.37 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pingree Grove is 0.37 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0.37 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Illinois systems
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. Pingree Grove's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 51st percentile in Illinois and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Kane County
38 other systems share Kane County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pingree Grove. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora | 183,000 | 25.7 ppb |
| Elgin | 114,797 | 18.5 ppb |
| Carpentersville | 37,983 | 1.1 ppb |
| St Charles | 33,081 | 3.9 ppb |
| Montgomery | 28,956 | 0 (not detected) |
| Batavia | 26,098 | 3.82 ppb |
| South Elgin | 23,648 | 1.4 ppb |
| Geneva | 21,247 | 5.35 ppb |
| North Aurora | 18,261 | 6.2 ppb |
| Sugar Grove | 11,243 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Pingree Grove, IL
Look up your address in Pingree Grove'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 Pingree Grove whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1680 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.