Arlington, MN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Arlington at a glance
Arlington serves about 2,230 people through 914 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Sibley County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1720001; phone on file: 5079642378. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Arlington's lead record
That is down 4 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Arlington is 24 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 7 ppb |
| 2018 | 6 ppb |
| 2018 | 7 ppb |
| 2017 | 24 ppb over 15 |
How Arlington compares
Of the 966 Minnesota systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 7 are over 15 ppb right now and 48 have gone over at some point. Arlington's 3 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Minnesota and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sibley County
7 other systems share Sibley County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Arlington. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gaylord | 2,269 | 2 ppb |
| Winthrop | 1,330 | 3 ppb |
| Henderson | 886 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gibbon | 790 | 1 ppb |
| Green Isle | 599 | 1 ppb |
| New Auburn | 456 | 1 ppb |
| Starland Hb, Inc. | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Arlington, MN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Arlington, MN 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 Arlington 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.