Morristown, MN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Morristown
Morristown serves about 987 people through 313 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Rice County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1660007; phone on file: 5076852302. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Morristown's lead record
That is down 4 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Morristown is 7 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 7 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
Against other Minnesota systems
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. Morristown's 3 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Minnesota and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Rice County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Morristown. 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) |
| Mn Correctional Facility - Faribault | 2,103 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dundas | 1,490 | 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Morristown, 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 Morristown whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1580 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.