Cando City Of, ND
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 15.2 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Cando City Of at a glance
Cando City Of serves about 1,115 people through 658 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 Towner County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND4800152; phone on file: 701-968-3632. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 5.28 ppb from 9.92 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cando City Of is 15.2 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 15.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 9.92 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.74 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.32 ppb |
| 2018 | 8.35 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.95 ppb |
| 2018 | 8.08 ppb |
| 2016 | 8.35 ppb |
| 2016 | 8.35 ppb |
Against other North Dakota systems
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. Cando City Of's 15.2 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in North Dakota and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
2 other systems share Towner County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cando City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bisbee City Of | 126 | 0.89 ppb |
| Rock Lake City Of | 94 | 1.49 ppb |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Cando 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.