Mn Correctional Facility - Faribault, MN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Mn Correctional Facility - Faribault at a glance
Mn Correctional Facility - Faribault serves about 2,103 people through 47 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rice County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1660005; phone on file: 5073324506. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mn Correctional Facility - Faribault is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
How Mn Correctional Facility - Faribault compares
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. Mn Correctional Facility - Faribault's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 43rd percentile in Minnesota and the 31st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Rice County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mn Correctional Facility - Faribault. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Faribault | 23,718 | 19 ppb |
| Northfield | 20,790 | 3 ppb |
| Lonsdale | 5,079 | 1 ppb |
| Carleton College | 2,485 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dundas | 1,490 | 3 ppb |
| Morristown | 987 | 3 ppb |
| Nerstrand | 299 | 0 (not detected) |
| Webster | 190 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rolling Green First Addition | 110 | 1 ppb |
| Millstone Creek Mobile Home Park | 90 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Mn Correctional Facility - Faribault'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 Mn Correctional Facility - Faribault 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.