Wells Bench Water And Road, ID
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Wells Bench Water And Road at a glance
Wells Bench Water And Road serves about 28 people through 15 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Clearwater County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID2180038; phone on file: 208-476-4437. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wells Bench Water And Road is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
How Wells Bench Water And Road 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. Wells Bench Water And Road's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Idaho and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Clearwater County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wells Bench Water And Road. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Orofino City Of | 2,459 | 12 ppb |
| Riverside Water And Sewer District | 2,000 | 3 ppb |
| Pierce City Of | 467 | 4 ppb |
| Weippe City Of | 438 | 5 ppb |
| Elk River City Of | 165 | 8.69 ppb |
| New Hope Subd | 100 | 48.2 ppb |
| Pleasant Acres Water And Sewer Dist | 89 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ahsahka Water And Sewer Dist | 85 | 10.9 ppb |
| Lakeview Water District | 45 | 1 ppb |
| Sunnyside Park | 40 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Wells Bench Water And Road'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 Wells Bench Water And Road 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.