Scenic Acres, IA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Scenic Acres serves about 27 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Clayton County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA2200901; phone on file: 563-245-2640. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 6.4 ppb from 7.6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Scenic Acres is 14 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.2 ppb |
How Scenic Acres 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. Scenic Acres's 14 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Iowa and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Clayton County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Scenic Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Guttenberg Water Utility | 1,817 | 1.6 ppb |
| Monona Municipal Water Dept | 1,471 | 3.5 ppb |
| Elkader Muni Water Dept | 1,219 | 5.4 ppb |
| Strawberry Point Water Supply | 1,155 | 2 ppb |
| Edgewood Water Supply | 939 | 3.7 ppb |
| Garnavillo Water Supply | 763 | 2.4 ppb |
| Mcgregor Water Dept | 747 | 9.01 ppb |
| Marquette Water Supply | 429 | 7.4 ppb |
| Luana Water Works | 301 | 0 (not detected) |
| Farmersburg Waterworks | 276 | 1.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; St. Olaf, IA 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 Scenic Acres 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.