Stover Heights Mhc, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (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. 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.
About Stover Heights Mhc
Stover Heights Mhc serves about 393 people through 157 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Polk County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA7727605; phone on file: 515-864-1003. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Stover Heights Mhc's lead record
That is up 3 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stover Heights Mhc is 5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Stover Heights Mhc's 5 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Iowa and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
34 other systems share Polk County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stover Heights Mhc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Des Moines Water Works | 246,055 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ankeny, City Of | 76,207 | 0 (not detected) |
| Urbandale Water Utility | 45,605 | 0 (not detected) |
| Johnston Municipal Water Supply | 24,897 | 0 (not detected) |
| Altoona Water Supply | 22,436 | 5.6 ppb |
| Clive Water Department | 20,277 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grimes Water Supply | 17,997 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bondurant Muni Water Supply | 9,393 | 1.3 ppb |
| Southeast Polk Rwd | 7,565 | 0 (not detected) |
| Polk City Water Supply | 6,533 | 1.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Madrid, 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 Stover Heights Mhc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.