Xenia Rwd (Des Moines), IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.74 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
About Xenia Rwd (Des Moines)
Xenia Rwd (Des Moines) serves about 12,860 people through 5,144 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Dallas County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA2573701; phone on file: 515-676-2117. 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 2023 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Xenia Rwd (Des Moines) is 2.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.74 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
How Xenia Rwd (Des Moines) compares
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. Xenia Rwd (Des Moines)'s 1.74 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Iowa and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share Dallas County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Xenia Rwd (Des Moines). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Waukee Water Supply | 31,823 | 0 (not detected) |
| Perry Municipal Water Works | 7,836 | 1 ppb |
| Adel Municipal Water Works | 6,461 | 0 (not detected) |
| Xenia Rwd (Woodward) | 3,465 | 0.7 ppb |
| Dallas Center Water Supply | 1,901 | 0 (not detected) |
| Granger Muni Water Supply | 1,654 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodward Water Supply | 1,346 | 4 ppb |
| Van Meter Municipal Water Work | 1,074 | 0 (not detected) |
| De Soto Water Supply | 960 | 0.5 ppb |
| Midwest Country Estates | 820 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Bouton, IA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bouton, IA 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 Xenia Rwd (Des Moines) 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.