Lignite City Of, ND
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.29 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Lignite City Of
Lignite City Of serves about 155 people through 100 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 Burke County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND0700569; phone on file: 701-933-2850. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.5 ppb from 0.79 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lignite City Of is 6.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.29 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.79 ppb |
| 2019 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.16 ppb |
How Lignite City Of compares
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. Lignite City Of's 3.29 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in North Dakota and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Burke County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lignite City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bowbells City Of | 336 | 0.81 ppb |
| Powers Lake City Of | 280 | 2.45 ppb |
| Columbus City Of | 133 | 0 (not detected) |
| Portal City Of | 126 | 0 (not detected) |
| Flaxton City Of | 66 | 2.66 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lignite, 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 Lignite 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.