Lansford City Of, ND
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.65 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Lansford City Of
Lansford City Of serves about 245 people through 150 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 Bottineau County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND0500549. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.05 ppb from 0.6 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lansford City Of is 3.87 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.65 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.29 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.87 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 300 North Dakota systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.91 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 20 have gone over at some point. Lansford City Of's 2.65 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in North Dakota and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Bottineau County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Lansford City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bottineau City Of | 2,211 | 1.05 ppb |
| All Seasons Wd-System I | 890 | 1.81 ppb |
| All Seasons Wd-System Iii | 790 | 5.51 ppb |
| Westhope City Of | 429 | 0 (not detected) |
| Willow City City Of | 163 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maxbass City Of | 84 | 0.73 ppb |
| Souris City Of | 58 | 0.84 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lansford, ND 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 Lansford City Of 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.