New York Mills, MN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
New York Mills at a glance
New York Mills serves about 1,287 people through 549 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 Otter Tail County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1560017; phone on file: 2183852213. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New York Mills is 0 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
How New York Mills 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 York Mills's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 38th percentile in Minnesota and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Otter Tail County
15 other systems share Otter Tail County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than New York Mills. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fergus Falls | 14,194 | 8 ppb |
| Perham | 3,421 | 3 ppb |
| Pelican Rapids | 2,577 | 7 ppb |
| Parkers Prairie | 1,023 | 0 (not detected) |
| Battle Lake | 918 | 2 ppb |
| Henning | 851 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ottertail | 694 | 0 (not detected) |
| Underwood | 380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vergas | 358 | 5 ppb |
| Deer Creek | 329 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in New York Mills'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 New York Mills whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1950 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.