Drake City Of, ND
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.8 ppb (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. 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.
Drake City Of at a glance
Drake City Of serves about 275 people through 177 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 groundwater, in Mchenry County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND2500266; phone on file: 701-465-3794. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (3.31 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Drake City Of is 10.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.31 ppb |
| 2017 | 10.5 ppb over 10 |
How Drake 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. Drake City Of's 2.8 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in North Dakota and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Mchenry County
5 other systems share Mchenry County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Drake City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Velva City Of | 1,084 | 6.71 ppb |
| Towner City Of | 479 | 6.4 ppb |
| Granville City Of | 241 | 1.26 ppb |
| Upham City Of | 130 | 0 (not detected) |
| Karlsruhe City Of | 82 | 1.85 ppb |
Next steps for Drake, ND
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Drake, 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 Drake 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.