Cottage Creek Estates, MN
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.
Cottage Creek Estates at a glance
Cottage Creek Estates serves about 50 people through 33 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Beltrami County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1040036; phone on file: 2184446121. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cottage Creek Estates is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Cottage Creek Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in Minnesota and the 3rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Beltrami County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cottage Creek Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bemidji | 15,147 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blackduck | 826 | 2 ppb |
| Kelliher | 259 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Hills Fellowship Bible College | 150 | 2 ppb |
| Elpine Village | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Birchlane Trailer Court | 80 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grass Lake Mobile Home Park | 80 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodland Mobile Home Park | 70 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Meadows | 70 | 0 (not detected) |
| Secluded Acres | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Bemidji, MN
Look up your address in Cottage Creek Estates'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 Cottage Creek Estates 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.