Riverside Water And Sewer District, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Riverside Water And Sewer District serves about 2,000 people through 612 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 Clearwater County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID2180032; phone on file: 208-476-3613. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Riverside Water And Sewer District's lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Riverside Water And Sewer District is 5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
Against other Idaho systems
Of the 763 Idaho systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 46 have gone over at some point. Riverside Water And Sewer District's 3 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Idaho and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Clearwater County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Riverside Water And Sewer District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Orofino City Of | 2,459 | 12 ppb |
| Pierce City Of | 467 | 4 ppb |
| Weippe City Of | 438 | 5 ppb |
| Elk River City Of | 165 | 8.69 ppb |
| New Hope Subd | 100 | 48.2 ppb |
| Pleasant Acres Water And Sewer Dist | 89 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ahsahka Water And Sewer Dist | 85 | 10.9 ppb |
| Lakeview Water District | 45 | 1 ppb |
| Sunnyside Park | 40 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wells Bench Water And Road | 28 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Orofino, ID 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 Riverside Water And Sewer District 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.