Oakes City Of, ND
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 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.
About Oakes City Of
Oakes City Of serves about 1,856 people through 650 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 Dickey County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND1100758; phone on file: 701-742-2137. 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 3.66 ppb from 3.66 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oakes City Of is 13.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 3.66 ppb |
| 2018 | 13.1 ppb over 10 |
Against other North Dakota systems
Of the 300 North Dakota systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.91 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 20 have gone over at some point. Oakes City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 36th percentile in North Dakota and the 30th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Dickey County
6 other systems share Dickey County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oakes City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ellendale City Of | 1,394 | 1.93 ppb |
| Southeast Wud (West) | 1,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maple River Hutterian Association | 140 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fullerton City Of | 54 | 1.52 ppb |
| Forbes City Of | 53 | 0.52 ppb |
| Monango City Of | 36 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Oakes, ND
Look up your address in Oakes City Of'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 Oakes City Of 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.