Countryside Estates, MN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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 Countryside Estates
Countryside Estates serves about 116 people through 72 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hennepin County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1270066; phone on file: 9525408600. 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 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Countryside Estates is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
How Countryside Estates compares
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. Countryside Estates's 1 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Minnesota and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
41 other systems share Hennepin County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Countryside Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis | 425,300 | 2 ppb |
| Bloomington | 91,300 | 2 ppb |
| Brooklyn Park | 89,995 | 1 ppb |
| Maple Grove | 82,000 | 2 ppb |
| Plymouth | 76,546 | 2 ppb |
| Eden Prairie | 63,726 | 0 (not detected) |
| Minnetonka | 54,474 | 0 (not detected) |
| Edina | 53,494 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saint Louis Park | 50,010 | 4 ppb |
| Richfield | 38,482 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; St. Louis Park, 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 Countryside 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. 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.