Dodge City Of, ND
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.05 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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 Dodge City Of
Dodge City Of serves about 87 people through 60 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Dunn County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND1300259; phone on file: 701-846-7330. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.61 ppb from 1.44 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dodge City Of is 4.05 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.05 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.44 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.57 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.76 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.57 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.65 ppb |
How Dodge City Of compares
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. Dodge City Of's 4.05 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in North Dakota and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Dunn County
5 other systems share Dunn County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Dodge City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Killdeer City Of | 939 | 0 (not detected) |
| Halliday City Of | 188 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dunn Center City Of | 146 | 1.66 ppb |
| New Hradec Waterworks | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
| Manning Water Board | 55 | 11.1 ppb |
Next steps for Dodge, ND
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dodge, 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 Dodge 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.