Bowdon City Of, ND
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.23 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Bowdon City Of serves about 131 people through 91 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 groundwater, in Wells County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND5200118; phone on file: 701-962-3808. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.01 ppb from 2.24 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bowdon City Of is 36.3 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.23 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.24 ppb |
| 2024 | 16.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 1.79 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 36.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 8.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Bowdon City Of's 1.23 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in North Dakota and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Wells County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bowdon City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Central Plains Water District | 3,504 | 1.02 ppb |
| Harvey City Of | 1,783 | 6.81 ppb |
| Fessenden City Of | 479 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sykeston City Of | 117 | 0.83 ppb |
| Cathay City Of | 43 | 11.5 ppb |
Next steps for Bowdon, ND
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bowdon, ND 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 Bowdon 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.