Stites City Of, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. 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.
Stites City Of at a glance
Stites City Of serves about 253 people through 121 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 Idaho County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID2250060; phone on file: 208-926-7121. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stites City Of is 3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Stites City Of compares
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. Stites City Of's 1 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Idaho and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Idaho County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stites City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Grangeville Water Dept | 3,151 | 2 ppb |
| Cottonwood Water Dept | 977 | 1 ppb |
| Kooskia Water Dept | 514 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riggins City Of | 434 | 2 ppb |
| Idoc North Idaho Correctional Institute | 425 | 2 ppb |
| Pine Ridge Water And Sewer Dist | 390 | 2 ppb |
| Elk City Water And Sewer Assn | 320 | 9 ppb |
| Kamiah Valley Company Llc | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Monastery Of St Gertrudes | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ferdinand City Of | 133 | 2.84 ppb |
Next steps for Stites, ID
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stites, 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 Stites City Of 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.