Fulda, MN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Fulda at a glance
Fulda serves about 1,318 people through 616 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Murray County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1510005; phone on file: 5074252504. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 33 ppb from 35 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fulda is 35 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 35 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
How Fulda compares
Of the 966 Minnesota systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 7 are over 15 ppb right now and 48 have gone over at some point. Fulda's 2 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Minnesota and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Murray County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fulda. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Slayton | 1,964 | 3 ppb |
| Chandler | 270 | 4 ppb |
| Lake Wilson | 247 | 4 ppb |
| Currie | 226 | 0 (not detected) |
| Iona | 162 | 1 ppb |
| Avoca | 111 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dovray | 61 | 2 ppb |
| Hadley | 56 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Fulda, MN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fulda, MN 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 Fulda 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.