Traer Municipal Water Plant, IA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Traer Municipal Water Plant at a glance
Traer Municipal Water Plant serves about 1,583 people through 776 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 Tama County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA8681030; phone on file: 319-478-8760. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Traer Municipal Water Plant is 0.55 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0.55 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Traer Municipal Water Plant's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 26th percentile in Iowa and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Tama County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Traer Municipal Water Plant. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Poweshiek Water Association | 13,920 | 0.6 ppb |
| Tama Water Supply | 3,130 | 4.8 ppb |
| Toledo Water Supply | 2,399 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dysart Water Supply | 1,281 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gladbrook Water Supply | 799 | 6 ppb |
| Garwin Water Supply | 481 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chelsea Water Supply | 229 | 2.6 ppb |
| Clutier Water Supply | 213 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montour Water Supply | 203 | 2.2 ppb |
| Elberon Water Supply | 184 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Traer Municipal Water Plant'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 Traer Municipal Water Plant 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.