Van Orin Water Company, IL
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.
Van Orin Water Company at a glance
Van Orin Water Company serves about 120 people through 48 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bureau County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL0115000; phone on file: 815-303-9016. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Van Orin Water Company's lead record
That is down 2.78 ppb from 2.78 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Van Orin Water Company is 2.78 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.78 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.24 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Van Orin Water Company's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Illinois and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
23 other systems share Bureau County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Van Orin Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Princeton | 7,832 | 21 ppb |
| Spring Valley | 5,582 | 0 (not detected) |
| De Pue | 1,838 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walnut | 1,311 | 5.4 ppb |
| Ladd | 1,263 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wyanet | 886 | 19.5 ppb |
| Sheffield | 821 | 1.4 ppb |
| Tiskilwa | 740 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dalzell | 663 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lamoille | 660 | 22.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Van Orin Water Company'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 Van Orin Water Company 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.