Pints Water Association, IA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13.1 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Pints Water Association serves about 96 people through 32 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Buchanan County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA1037301; phone on file: 319-830-3845. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 9.2 ppb from 3.9 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pints Water Association is 13.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 13.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.6 ppb |
How Pints Water Association 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. Pints Water Association's 13.1 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Iowa and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Buchanan County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pints Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Independence Water Dept | 6,064 | 7.1 ppb |
| Jesup Municipal Water Supply | 2,508 | 1.7 ppb |
| Fairbank Water Supply | 1,111 | 1.6 ppb |
| Winthrop Water Supply | 840 | 3.5 ppb |
| Hazleton Water Supply | 713 | 1.45 ppb |
| Lamont Water Supply | 429 | 13 ppb |
| Brandon Water Supply | 341 | 3.2 ppb |
| Hazleton Mobile Home Park | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| River Ridge Hoa | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Independence, 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 Pints Water Association 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.