Mn Correctional Facility - Willow River, MN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Who runs the water here
Mn Correctional Facility - Willow River serves about 240 people through 9 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pine County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1580014; phone on file: 2184855023. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Mn Correctional Facility - Willow River's lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mn Correctional Facility - Willow River is 2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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 - Willow River's 2 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Minnesota and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Pine County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mn Correctional Facility - Willow River. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pine City | 3,458 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hinckley | 1,964 | 0 (not detected) |
| Federal Correctional Institution | 1,587 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sandstone | 1,425 | 0 (not detected) |
| Willow River | 410 | 11 ppb |
| Sturgeon Lake | 406 | 3 ppb |
| Askov | 364 | 0 (not detected) |
| Finlayson | 315 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cross Lake Housing Development | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brook Park | 133 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Moose Lake, MN 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 Mn Correctional Facility - Willow River 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.