Flaxton City Of, ND
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.66 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Flaxton City Of
Flaxton City Of serves about 66 people through 93 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 Burke County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND0700344; phone on file: 701-596-3511. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Flaxton City Of's lead record
That is up 1.95 ppb from 0.71 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Flaxton City Of is 41.4 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.66 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.71 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 41.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 0.52 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.66 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.89 ppb |
| 2020 | 10 ppb |
| 2020 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 15.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 4.51 ppb |
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. Flaxton City Of's 2.66 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in North Dakota and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Burke County
5 other systems share Burke County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Flaxton City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bowbells City Of | 336 | 0.81 ppb |
| Powers Lake City Of | 280 | 2.45 ppb |
| Lignite City Of | 155 | 3.29 ppb |
| Columbus City Of | 133 | 0 (not detected) |
| Portal City Of | 126 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Flaxton, 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 Flaxton 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.