Maxbass City Of, ND
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.73 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Maxbass City Of serves about 84 people through 55 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: ND0500620; phone on file: 701-848-6229. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Maxbass City Of is 20.2 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.73 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.07 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.39 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.98 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 20.2 ppb over 15 |
How Maxbass 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. Maxbass City Of's 0.73 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in North Dakota and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bottineau County
7 other systems share Bottineau County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Maxbass 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) |
| Lansford City Of | 245 | 2.65 ppb |
| Willow City City Of | 163 | 0 (not detected) |
| Souris City Of | 58 | 0.84 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Maxbass, 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 Maxbass City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1598 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.