Valley Green, ID
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Valley Green at a glance
Valley Green serves about 135 people through 54 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Kootenai County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID1280195; phone on file: 208-687-6593. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 2 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley Green is 122 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 32 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 122 ppb over 15 |
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. Valley Green's 1 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Idaho and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
112 other systems share Kootenai County; 44 of them have a higher latest lead result than Valley Green. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Coeur D Alene City Of | 54,115 | 2 ppb |
| Post Falls City Of | 20,285 | 1 ppb |
| East Greenacres Irrigation Dist | 11,165 | 3 ppb |
| Ross Point Water Dist | 10,473 | 2 ppb |
| Rathdrum City Of | 10,358 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hayden Lake Irrigation Dist | 9,375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avondale Irrigation Dist | 8,785 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hillside Service Area | 4,140 | 1 ppb |
| Rimrock Service Area | 3,493 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spirit Lake City Of | 2,825 | 1.6 ppb |
Next steps for Rathdrum, ID
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rathdrum, 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 Valley Green 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.