Heartland Colony, 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.
Heartland Colony at a glance
Heartland Colony serves about 90 people through 12 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pipestone County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1590012; phone on file: 5076908038. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heartland Colony 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) |
Against other Minnesota systems
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. Heartland Colony's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Minnesota and the 8th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Pipestone County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heartland Colony. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pipestone | 4,273 | 3 ppb |
| Edgerton | 1,281 | 6 ppb |
| Jasper | 623 | 1 ppb |
| Ruthton | 220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holland | 187 | 5 ppb |
| Woodstock | 108 | 0 (not detected) |
| Trosky | 86 | 6 ppb |
| Ihlen | 63 | 6 ppb |
| Hatfield Municipal Water Supply | 54 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Heartland Colony'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 Heartland Colony 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.