Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association, IL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association serves about 215 people through 86 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tazewell County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL1795050; phone on file: 309-244-7124. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association is 2.3 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
How Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association compares
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. Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Illinois and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Tazewell County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Il American-Pekin | 31,731 | 1 ppb |
| East Peoria | 22,484 | 7 ppb |
| Morton | 17,117 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington | 14,793 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Tazewell Pwd | 7,625 | 5.1 ppb |
| Creve Coeur | 4,934 | 2.1 ppb |
| Mackinaw | 3,399 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marquette Heights | 2,974 | 1.02 ppb |
| Groveland Township Water District | 2,185 | 5.2 ppb |
| Tremont | 2,114 | 1.2 ppb |
Next steps for Delavan, IL
Look up your address in Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association'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 Venado Lakes-Argyll Water Association whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1600 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.