Fort Meade Va Center, SD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8 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. 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.
Fort Meade Va Center at a glance
Fort Meade Va Center serves about 800 people through 82 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws surface water, in Meade County, South Dakota. EPA system ID: SD4680002; phone on file: 6057207313. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 6 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Meade Va Center is 8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
Against other South Dakota systems
Of the 458 South Dakota systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 2 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 6 have gone over at some point. Fort Meade Va Center's 8 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in South Dakota and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
41 other systems share Meade County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Fort Meade Va Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sturgis | 7,020 | 2 ppb |
| Black Hawk Water User District | 4,500 | 2 ppb |
| Piedmont | 971 | 3 ppb |
| Bear Butte Valley Water | 882 | 1 ppb |
| Wonderland Homes | 750 | 2 ppb |
| Sun Valley Development | 650 | 6 ppb |
| Weston Heights Homeowners Associatio | 412 | 7 ppb |
| Faith | 367 | 1 ppb |
| Blucksberg Mountain #2 | 333 | 9 ppb |
| Stagebarn Sanitary District | 295 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Fort Meade, SD
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Meade, SD 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 Fort Meade Va Center 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.