Whispering Pines Mhp, IL

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2015-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.

Whispering Pines Mhp at a glance

Whispering Pines Mhp serves about 400 people through 169 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sullivan County, Illinois. EPA system ID: NY5201339; phone on file: 630-645-8100. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Whispering Pines Mhp's lead record

The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Whispering Pines Mhp is 1 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.

How Whispering Pines Mhp 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. Whispering Pines Mhp's 1 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Illinois and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).

What to do in your house

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Oak Brook, 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 Whispering Pines Mhp 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.