Woodland Shores Water And Sewer Assn, ID
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (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. 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.
Woodland Shores Water And Sewer Assn at a glance
Woodland Shores Water And Sewer Assn serves about 210 people through 81 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Kootenai County, Idaho. EPA system ID: ID1280203; phone on file: 208-920-3217. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 11 ppb from 13 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woodland Shores Water And Sewer Assn is 13 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
How Woodland Shores Water And Sewer Assn 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. Woodland Shores Water And Sewer Assn's 2 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Idaho and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
112 other systems share Kootenai County; 23 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woodland Shores Water And Sewer Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Coeur D Alene City Of | 54,115 | 2 ppb |
| Post Falls City Of | 20,285 | 1 ppb |
| East Greenacres Irrigation Dist | 11,165 | 3 ppb |
| Ross Point Water Dist | 10,473 | 2 ppb |
| Rathdrum City Of | 10,358 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hayden Lake Irrigation Dist | 9,375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avondale Irrigation Dist | 8,785 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hillside Service Area | 4,140 | 1 ppb |
| Rimrock Service Area | 3,493 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spirit Lake City Of | 2,825 | 1.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Coeur D Alene, ID 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 Woodland Shores Water And Sewer Assn 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.