Prairieburg Muni. Water Supply, IA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Prairieburg Muni. Water Supply at a glance
Prairieburg Muni. Water Supply serves about 160 people through 79 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Linn County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA5772054; phone on file: 319-480-3203. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Prairieburg Muni. Water Supply is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Prairieburg Muni. Water Supply 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. Prairieburg Muni. Water Supply's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 9th percentile in Iowa and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
39 other systems share Linn County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Prairieburg Muni. Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cedar Rapids Water Department | 142,364 | 1.62 ppb |
| Marion Municipal Water Dept | 41,623 | 8.3 ppb |
| Hiawatha Water Dept | 7,183 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Vernon Water Supply | 4,527 | 1 ppb |
| Fairfax Water Supply | 2,828 | 2 ppb |
| Center Point Water Supply | 2,579 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ely Water Supply | 2,328 | 4 ppb |
| Lisbon Water Supply | 2,233 | 1.7 ppb |
| Palo Water Supply | 1,407 | 1.6 ppb |
| Central City Water Supply | 1,264 | 3 ppb |
Next steps for Prairieburg, IA
Look up your address in Prairieburg Muni. Water Supply'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 Prairieburg Muni. Water Supply 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.