Pine Lake Hills, SD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
Pine Lake Hills serves about 320 people through 91 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Minnehaha County, South Dakota. EPA system ID: SD4600624. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pine Lake Hills is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Pine Lake Hills 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. Pine Lake Hills's 2 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in South Dakota and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Minnehaha County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pine Lake Hills. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sioux Falls | 216,462 | 3 ppb |
| Brandon | 11,048 | 1 ppb |
| Dell Rapids | 3,633 | 2 ppb |
| Hartford | 3,396 | 1 ppb |
| Crooks | 1,362 | 1 ppb |
| Baltic | 1,271 | 1 ppb |
| Garretson | 1,228 | 1 ppb |
| Valley Springs | 925 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colton | 738 | 1 ppb |
| Humboldt | 579 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Sioux Falls, SD
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sioux Falls, 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 Pine Lake Hills 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.