Hazel Run, MN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Hazel Run at a glance
Hazel Run serves about 61 people through 28 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 Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1870011; phone on file: 5078282568. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Hazel Run's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hazel Run is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
How Hazel Run 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. Hazel Run's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Minnesota and the 5th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Yellow Medicine County
8 other systems share Yellow Medicine County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hazel Run. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Granite Falls | 2,843 | 10 ppb |
| Canby | 1,769 | 2 ppb |
| Clarkfield | 841 | 3 ppb |
| Wood Lake | 423 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hanley Falls | 275 | 1 ppb |
| Echo | 269 | 0 (not detected) |
| Porter | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saint Leo | 97 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Hazel Run, MN
Look up your address in Hazel Run's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Hazel Run 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.