New Munich, MN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
About New Munich
New Munich serves about 320 people through 137 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 Stearns County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1730017; phone on file: 3208375202. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 7 ppb from 8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Munich is 62 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 8 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 62 ppb over 15 |
How New Munich 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. New Munich's 1 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Minnesota and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Stearns County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Munich. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Saint Cloud | 71,321 | 3 ppb |
| Sartell | 20,300 | 2 ppb |
| Waite Park | 8,354 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saint Joseph | 7,100 | 5 ppb |
| Sauk Centre | 4,657 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cold Spring | 4,201 | 3 ppb |
| Melrose | 3,886 | 0 (not detected) |
| Albany | 2,805 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paynesville | 2,575 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saint John'S University | 2,500 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for New Munich, MN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Munich, 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 New Munich 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.