West Point, IL
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
West Point serves about 248 people through 130 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Hancock County, Illinois. EPA system ID: IL0670700; phone on file: 217-430-4509. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for West Point is 15.5 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 5 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.68 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.34 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.56 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.04 ppb |
| 2019 | 15.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 6.1 ppb |
How West Point 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. West Point's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Illinois and the 17th 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 Hancock County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than West Point. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hamilton | 2,753 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carthage | 2,510 | 0 (not detected) |
| Warsaw | 1,480 | 2.9 ppb |
| Laharpe | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nauvoo | 1,200 | 2.4 ppb |
| Dallas City | 788 | 0 (not detected) |
| Augusta | 553 | 4.3 ppb |
| Bowen | 494 | 1 ppb |
| Plymouth | 460 | 10 ppb |
| Elvaston | 165 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; West Point, IL 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 West Point 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.