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Rocky Beach Water Dist, ID

Exceeded the action level in the past

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.

Rocky Beach Water Dist at a glance

Rocky Beach Water Dist serves about 115 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Kootenai County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID1280157; phone on file: 206-661-7589. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Lead results over time

That is up 3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rocky Beach Water Dist is 18 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20233 ppb
20210 (not detected)
20200 (not detected)
20192 ppb
20186.9 ppb
201718 ppb over 15

Where this result ranks

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. Rocky Beach Water Dist's 3 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Idaho and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

112 other systems share Kootenai County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rocky Beach Water Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Coeur D Alene City Of54,1152 ppb
Post Falls City Of20,2851 ppb
East Greenacres Irrigation Dist11,1653 ppb
Ross Point Water Dist10,4732 ppb
Rathdrum City Of10,3580 (not detected)
Hayden Lake Irrigation Dist9,3750 (not detected)
Avondale Irrigation Dist8,7850 (not detected)
Hillside Service Area4,1401 ppb
Rimrock Service Area3,4930 (not detected)
Spirit Lake City Of2,8251.6 ppb

What to do in your house

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Spirit Lake, 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 Rocky Beach Water Dist 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.