Almont City Of, ND
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Almont City Of serves about 122 people through 55 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 surface water, in Morton County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND3000012; phone on file: 701-843-7589. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Almont City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Almont City Of is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Almont City Of compares
Of the 300 North Dakota systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.91 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 20 have gone over at some point. Almont City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in North Dakota and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Morton County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Almont City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mandan City Of | 21,769 | 4.2 ppb |
| Missouri West Water System | 4,303 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Salem City Of | 946 | 1.54 ppb |
| Glen Ullin City Of | 807 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hebron City Of | 747 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crown Butte Coop | 320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Flasher City Of | 232 | 0.52 ppb |
| Riverview Heights | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southwest Wa-Junction Inn(Missouri West) | 173 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southwest Wa-Tower Hill (Missouri West) | 43 | 1.67 ppb |
Next steps for Almont, ND
Look up your address in Almont City Of's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Almont City Of 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.