Fradets Orchard Water System, ND
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.93 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Fradets Orchard Water System at a glance
Fradets Orchard Water System serves about 56 people through 16 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 Cass County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND0901410. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fradets Orchard Water System is 16.8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.93 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.18 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.27 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.72 ppb |
| 2019 | 16.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Fradets Orchard Water System's 0.93 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in North Dakota and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
25 other systems share Cass County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fradets Orchard Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fargo City Of | 120,762 | 1.89 ppb |
| West Fargo City Of | 34,858 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cass Rural Water District Fargo | 4,242 | 1.63 ppb |
| Cass Rural Water District-Phase I | 3,658 | 0 (not detected) |
| Casselton City Of | 2,513 | 12.1 ppb |
| Cass Rural Water District-Phase Ii | 1,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cass Rural Water District-Phase Iii | 1,682 | 0 (not detected) |
| Horace City Of | 1,641 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mapleton City Of | 1,320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harwood City Of | 718 | 6.72 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Horace, 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 Fradets Orchard Water System 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.