Strawberry Point Water Supply, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Strawberry Point Water Supply at a glance
Strawberry Point Water Supply serves about 1,155 people through 585 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Clayton County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA2279003; phone on file: 563-933-4446. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Strawberry Point Water Supply's lead record
That is down 5 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Strawberry Point Water Supply is 10 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 7 ppb |
| 2021 | 7 ppb |
| 2020 | 10 ppb |
| 2020 | 6 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Strawberry Point Water Supply compares
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. Strawberry Point Water Supply's 2 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Iowa and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Clayton County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Strawberry Point Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Guttenberg Water Utility | 1,817 | 1.6 ppb |
| Monona Municipal Water Dept | 1,471 | 3.5 ppb |
| Elkader Muni Water Dept | 1,219 | 5.4 ppb |
| Edgewood Water Supply | 939 | 3.7 ppb |
| Garnavillo Water Supply | 763 | 2.4 ppb |
| Mcgregor Water Dept | 747 | 9.01 ppb |
| Marquette Water Supply | 429 | 7.4 ppb |
| Luana Water Works | 301 | 0 (not detected) |
| Farmersburg Waterworks | 276 | 1.2 ppb |
| Volga Water Supply | 203 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Strawberry Point, 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 Strawberry Point 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.