Pocahontas, IL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2018-2020). 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 Pocahontas
Pocahontas serves about 697 people through 367 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 surface water, in Bond County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL0050200; phone on file: 618-973-0633. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.3 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pocahontas is 1.3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.3 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Pocahontas's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Illinois and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Bond County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pocahontas. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greenville | 8,310 | 14 ppb |
| Bond/Madison Water Company | 6,645 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mulberry Grove | 548 | 3.9 ppb |
| Sorento | 429 | 3.1 ppb |
| Panama | 343 | 3 ppb |
| Donnellson | 216 | 0 (not detected) |
| Smithboro | 188 | 0 (not detected) |
| Country View Mhc | 173 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Pocahontas'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 Pocahontas 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.