Rhodes Water Supply, IA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Rhodes Water Supply at a glance
Rhodes Water Supply serves about 271 people through 136 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 Marshall County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA6480081; phone on file: 641-485-9915. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (0.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rhodes Water Supply is 1.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Rhodes Water Supply's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Iowa and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
12 other systems share Marshall County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rhodes Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marshalltown Water Works | 27,680 | 2 ppb |
| State Center Muni Water Dept | 1,411 | 0.5 ppb |
| Le Grand Water Works | 910 | 1.1 ppb |
| Melbourne Water Supply | 765 | 5.7 ppb |
| Gilman Water Supply | 582 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sunset Village | 528 | 0 (not detected) |
| Albion Water Department | 448 | 1.4 ppb |
| Marshalltown Estates | 382 | 3 ppb |
| Liscomb Water Supply | 291 | 0 (not detected) |
| Laurel Municipal Water Works | 220 | 3.2 ppb |
Next steps for Rhodes, IA
Look up your address in Rhodes 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 Rhodes 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. 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.