Hartland, MN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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.
About Hartland
Hartland serves about 321 people through 144 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 Freeborn County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1240011; phone on file: 5078452469. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hartland is 11 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Hartland's 3 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Minnesota and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Freeborn County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hartland. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albert Lea | 18,492 | 2 ppb |
| Clarks Grove | 695 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alden | 661 | 7 ppb |
| Glenville | 566 | 0 (not detected) |
| Geneva | 538 | 0 (not detected) |
| Emmons | 384 | 1 ppb |
| Hollandale | 294 | 0 (not detected) |
| Freeborn | 259 | 2 ppb |
| Perennia Senior Living - Albert Lea | 256 | - |
| Hayward | 254 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hartland, 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 Hartland 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.