Ramona, 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.
Ramona at a glance
Ramona serves about 159 people through 107 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 Lake County, South Dakota. EPA system ID: SD4600252. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ramona is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
How Ramona 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. Ramona's 2 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in South Dakota and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
4 other systems share Lake County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Ramona. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Madison | 6,191 | 2 ppb |
| Kingbrook Iii Rural Water System | 2,973 | 3 ppb |
| Chester Sanitary District | 363 | 1 ppb |
| Wentworth | 181 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Arlington, 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 Ramona 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.