Country Acres Water Co, ND
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.8 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Country Acres Water Co serves about 50 people through 17 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cass County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND0901449. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Country Acres Water Co's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (8.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Country Acres Water Co is 13.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 8.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 8.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 13.2 ppb over 10 |
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. Country Acres Water Co's 8.8 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in North Dakota and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
25 other systems share Cass County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Country Acres Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fargo City Of | 120,762 | 1.89 ppb |
| West Fargo City Of | 34,858 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cass Rural Water District Fargo | 4,242 | 1.63 ppb |
| Cass Rural Water District-Phase I | 3,658 | 0 (not detected) |
| Casselton City Of | 2,513 | 12.1 ppb |
| Cass Rural Water District-Phase Ii | 1,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cass Rural Water District-Phase Iii | 1,682 | 0 (not detected) |
| Horace City Of | 1,641 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mapleton City Of | 1,320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harwood City Of | 718 | 6.72 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Horace, 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 Country Acres Water Co 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.