Shambaugh Muni Water Supply, IA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Shambaugh Muni Water Supply serves about 159 people through 80 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Page County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA7380036; phone on file: 712-542-0758. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Shambaugh Muni Water Supply's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shambaugh Muni Water Supply is 8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 8 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Shambaugh Muni Water Supply's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 9th percentile in Iowa and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Page County
8 other systems share Page County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shambaugh Muni Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clarinda Water Plant | 5,305 | 1.8 ppb |
| Shenandoah Water Dept | 4,933 | 0.5 ppb |
| Southwest Reg Water District (Clarinda) | 2,942 | 2 ppb |
| Clarinda Treatment Complex | 1,439 | 0 (not detected) |
| Essex Water Supply | 722 | 1.3 ppb |
| Coin Water Supply | 176 | 2.4 ppb |
| College Springs Water Supply | 170 | 3.6 ppb |
| Braddyville Water Works | 147 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Shambaugh Muni Water Supply's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Shambaugh Muni Water Supply 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.