South Amana Water Supply, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
South Amana Water Supply at a glance
South Amana Water Supply serves about 300 people through 204 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 groundwater, in Iowa County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA4868034; phone on file: 319-622-3052. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Amana Water Supply is 4 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
Against other Iowa systems
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. South Amana Water Supply's 2 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Iowa and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Iowa County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Amana Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Williamsburg Public Water Supply | 3,345 | 3 ppb |
| Poweshiek Water Association (Iac) | 2,490 | 0.9 ppb |
| Marengo Water Supply | 2,435 | 1.2 ppb |
| Amana Society Water System North | 1,248 | 0 (not detected) |
| North English Water Department | 1,065 | 0 (not detected) |
| Victor Municipal Water Dept | 875 | 18.2 ppb |
| Ladora Water Supply | 229 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millersburg Water Dept | 135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waldenburg Community Water System | 90 | 2 ppb |
| Iowa Valley Estates | 46 | 8 ppb |
Next steps for Amana, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Amana, 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 South Amana 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.