Shady Brook Mobile Home Park, IL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.22 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
Shady Brook Mobile Home Park serves about 50 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Van Buren County, Illinois. EPA system ID: MI0040496; phone on file: 312-722-8018. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shady Brook Mobile Home Park is 1.22 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.22 ppb |
How Shady Brook Mobile Home Park compares
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. Shady Brook Mobile Home Park's 1.22 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Illinois and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
4 other systems share Van Buren County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shady Brook Mobile Home Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Whispering Pines Estates | 125 | 1 ppb |
| Three Mile Lake Trailer Park | 112 | 4.44 ppb |
| Applewood | 75 | 0.7 ppb |
| Viking River Mobile Home Park | 55 | 1.57 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Chicago, IL 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 Shady Brook Mobile Home Park 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.