Strawberry Mink Creek Water Assn, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2020-2022). 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.
Strawberry Mink Creek Water Assn at a glance
Strawberry Mink Creek Water Assn serves about 75 people through 34 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Franklin County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID6210017; phone on file: 208-380-9983. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2019 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Strawberry Mink Creek Water Assn is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Strawberry Mink Creek Water Assn's 2 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Idaho and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Franklin County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Strawberry Mink Creek Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Preston City Of | 5,591 | 2 ppb |
| Fairview Water Dist | 1,300 | 3 ppb |
| Franklin City Of | 1,000 | 3 ppb |
| Dayton City Of | 510 | 2 ppb |
| Weston City Of | 490 | 1 ppb |
| Clifton City Of | 413 | 1 ppb |
| Whitney Nashville Water Works | 403 | 0 (not detected) |
| Banida Water And Sewer Dist | 180 | 1 ppb |
| Cub River Acres | 180 | 7 ppb |
| Birch Creek Culinary | 120 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Preston, 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 Strawberry Mink Creek Water Assn 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.