Riverview Estates, IL

Above the federal action level

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 25 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.

Riverview Estates at a glance

Riverview Estates serves about 375 people through 150 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lehigh County, Illinois. EPA system ID: PA3390018. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.

Every lead result on file

The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Riverview Estates is 25 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.

Against other Illinois systems

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. Riverview Estates's 25 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Illinois and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).

Next steps for Skokie, IL

Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Riverview Estates 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.