Browerville, MN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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 Browerville
Browerville serves about 840 people through 306 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 Todd County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1770002; phone on file: 3205942201. 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 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Browerville is 4 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
Against other Minnesota systems
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. Browerville's 2 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Minnesota and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Todd County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Browerville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Long Prairie | 3,744 | 0 (not detected) |
| Staples | 3,089 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clarissa | 665 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bertha | 560 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eagle Bend | 545 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grey Eagle | 330 | 5 ppb |
| Hewitt | 256 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Browerville, MN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Browerville, 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 Browerville 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.