Yankee Grove Hoa, IA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
Yankee Grove Hoa serves about 64 people through 21 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cedar County, Iowa. EPA system ID: IA5784321; phone on file: 319-936-4189. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Yankee Grove Hoa is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Yankee Grove Hoa's 2 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Iowa and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Cedar County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Yankee Grove Hoa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tipton Water Supply | 3,149 | 1 ppb |
| West Branch Water Works | 2,509 | 3 ppb |
| Durant Water Supply | 1,871 | 6 ppb |
| Clarence Water Supply | 1,039 | 2 ppb |
| Mechanicsville Water Dept | 1,020 | 4 ppb |
| Lowden Water Supply | 807 | 2 ppb |
| Stanwood Water Supply | 637 | 8 ppb |
| West Branch Mhp | 400 | 2 ppb |
| Bennett Waterworks | 347 | 60 ppb |
| Coach Road Well Association | 60 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Oxford, 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 Yankee Grove Hoa 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.