Valley View Water And Sewer District, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Who runs the water here
Valley View Water And Sewer District serves about 70 people through 70 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Idaho County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID2250065; phone on file: 208-702-2788. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley View Water And Sewer District is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 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. Valley View Water And Sewer District's 1 ppb sits at the 41st percentile in Idaho and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Idaho County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Valley View Water And Sewer District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Grangeville Water Dept | 3,151 | 2 ppb |
| Cottonwood Water Dept | 977 | 1 ppb |
| Kooskia Water Dept | 514 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riggins City Of | 434 | 2 ppb |
| Idoc North Idaho Correctional Institute | 425 | 2 ppb |
| Pine Ridge Water And Sewer Dist | 390 | 2 ppb |
| Elk City Water And Sewer Assn | 320 | 9 ppb |
| Stites City Of | 253 | 1 ppb |
| Kamiah Valley Company Llc | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Monastery Of St Gertrudes | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Kamiah, ID
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kamiah, 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 View Water And Sewer District 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.