Towanda, IL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Towanda
Towanda serves about 480 people through 254 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 surface water, in Mclean County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL1131050; phone on file: 309-287-7861. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Towanda's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Towanda is 0 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Towanda compares
Of the 1,744 Illinois systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 22 are over 15 ppb right now and 152 have gone over at some point. Towanda's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Illinois and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
34 other systems share Mclean County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Towanda. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomington | 79,000 | 2.5 ppb |
| Normal | 52,736 | 3.7 ppb |
| Illinois State University-Normal | 6,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Le Roy | 3,498 | 13 ppb |
| Heyworth | 2,853 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lexington | 1,930 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hudson | 1,847 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bloomington Township Pwd West Phase | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chenoa | 1,800 | 1.7 ppb |
| Gridley | 1,411 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Towanda, IL
Look up your address in Towanda's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Towanda 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.