Fessenden City Of, ND
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Fessenden City Of at a glance
Fessenden City Of serves about 479 people through 304 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 Wells County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND5200338; phone on file: 701-269-2821. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fessenden City Of is 4.39 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 4.39 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.64 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.5 ppb |
How Fessenden 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. Fessenden City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 23rd percentile in North Dakota and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Wells County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fessenden City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Central Plains Water District | 3,504 | 1.02 ppb |
| Harvey City Of | 1,783 | 6.81 ppb |
| Bowdon City Of | 131 | 1.23 ppb |
| Sykeston City Of | 117 | 0.83 ppb |
| Cathay City Of | 43 | 11.5 ppb |
Next steps for Fessenden, ND
Look up your address in Fessenden City Of'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 Fessenden 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.