Valley View Water Assn, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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.
Valley View Water Assn at a glance
Valley View Water Assn serves about 35 people through 16 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Caribou County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID6150022; phone on file: 817-437-1976. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Valley View Water Assn's lead record
That is up 3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley View Water Assn is 10 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 10 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
How Valley View Water Assn compares
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 Assn's 3 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Idaho and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Caribou County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Valley View Water Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Soda Springs City Of | 3,111 | 6 ppb |
| Grace City Of | 920 | 3 ppb |
| Bancroft City Of | 350 | 11 ppb |
| Bailey Creek Property Owners Assn | 250 | 7 ppb |
| Trout Creek Culinary Water Inc | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whiskey Creek Water Users | 35 | 0 (not detected) |
| Evergreen Heights Subd | 25 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Soda Springs, 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 Assn 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.