Prospect Manor Mhc, SD

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.9 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.

Prospect Manor Mhc at a glance

Prospect Manor Mhc serves about 94 people through 52 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Van Buren County, South Dakota. EPA system ID: MI0040490; phone on file: 630-642-0537. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Prospect Manor Mhc's lead record

The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Prospect Manor Mhc is 5.9 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.

Against other South Dakota systems

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. Prospect Manor Mhc's 5.9 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in South Dakota and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).

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 Prospect Manor Mhc 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.