Lincoln County Rural Water System, SD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Lincoln County Rural Water System
Lincoln County Rural Water System serves about 5,965 people through 2,386 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lincoln,Minnehaha County, South Dakota. EPA system ID: SD4600304; phone on file: 6057672966. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lincoln County Rural Water System is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 458 South Dakota systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 2 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 6 have gone over at some point. Lincoln County Rural Water System's 2 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in South Dakota and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sioux Falls, SD 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 Lincoln County Rural Water System 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.