Victor Municipal Water Dept, IA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 18.2 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Victor Municipal Water Dept at a glance
Victor Municipal Water Dept serves about 875 people through 470 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Iowa County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA4875050; phone on file: 319-231-3577. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 15.1 ppb from 3.1 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Victor Municipal Water Dept is 18.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 18.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.1 ppb |
Against other Iowa systems
Of the 1,066 Iowa systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.4 ppb; 4 are over 15 ppb right now and 36 have gone over at some point. Victor Municipal Water Dept's 18.2 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Iowa and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Iowa County
10 other systems share Iowa County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Victor Municipal Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Williamsburg Public Water Supply | 3,345 | 3 ppb |
| Poweshiek Water Association (Iac) | 2,490 | 0.9 ppb |
| Marengo Water Supply | 2,435 | 1.2 ppb |
| Amana Society Water System North | 1,248 | 0 (not detected) |
| North English Water Department | 1,065 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Amana Water Supply | 300 | 2 ppb |
| Ladora Water Supply | 229 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millersburg Water Dept | 135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waldenburg Community Water System | 90 | 2 ppb |
| Iowa Valley Estates | 46 | 8 ppb |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Victor Municipal Water Dept 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.