The Valley Club, ID
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.97 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
The Valley Club serves about 135 people through 101 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Blaine County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID5070085; phone on file: 208-720-5893. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
The Valley Club's lead record
That is down 17.03 ppb from 20 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Valley Club is 20 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.97 ppb |
| 2025 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
Against other Idaho systems
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. The Valley Club's 2.97 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Idaho and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Blaine County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Valley Club. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hailey Water And Sewer | 8,000 | 2 ppb |
| Ketchum City Of | 3,555 | 9 ppb |
| Sun Valley Water And Sewer Dist | 3,400 | 4 ppb |
| Bellevue City Of | 2,747 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carey City Of | 993 | 4 ppb |
| Mid Valley Water Company Llc | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hulen Meadows Water Company | 390 | 5 ppb |
| Cold Springs Subd | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Heatherlands Subd | 200 | 1 ppb |
| Starweather Estates | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Ketchum, ID
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ketchum, 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 The Valley Club 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.