New Effington, SD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
New Effington at a glance
New Effington serves about 247 people through 127 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 Roberts County, South Dakota. EPA system ID: SD4600013. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
New Effington's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Effington is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
How New Effington compares
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. New Effington's 2 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in South Dakota and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Roberts County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Effington. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sisseton | 2,479 | 5 ppb |
| Wilmot | 432 | 7 ppb |
| Rosholt | 379 | 2 ppb |
| Summit | 288 | 2 ppb |
| Peever | 140 | 1 ppb |
| White Rock Colony | 108 | 1 ppb |
| Corona | 69 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for New Effington, SD
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Effington, 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 New Effington 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.