Garrison Bay Resort, MN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Garrison Bay Resort serves about 36 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1180016; phone on file: 7633605646. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Garrison Bay Resort's lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Garrison Bay Resort is 2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
How Garrison Bay Resort 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. Garrison Bay Resort's 2 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Minnesota and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Crow Wing County
22 other systems share Crow Wing County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Garrison Bay Resort. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brainerd | 14,670 | 2 ppb |
| Baxter | 9,341 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crosby | 2,377 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pequot Lakes | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ironton | 578 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deerwood | 530 | 5 ppb |
| Crow Wing Estates | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cuyuna | 175 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverton | 126 | 0 (not detected) |
| Knieff'S Shore Acres | 100 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Minneapolis, MN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Minneapolis, 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 Garrison Bay Resort 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.