Saint Anthony Village, MN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Saint Anthony Village at a glance
Saint Anthony Village serves about 9,500 people through 2,368 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Hennepin County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1270048; phone on file: 6127823315. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Saint Anthony Village is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Saint Anthony Village 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. Saint Anthony Village's 1 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Minnesota and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
41 other systems share Hennepin County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Saint Anthony Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis | 425,300 | 2 ppb |
| Bloomington | 91,300 | 2 ppb |
| Brooklyn Park | 89,995 | 1 ppb |
| Maple Grove | 82,000 | 2 ppb |
| Plymouth | 76,546 | 2 ppb |
| Eden Prairie | 63,726 | 0 (not detected) |
| Minnetonka | 54,474 | 0 (not detected) |
| Edina | 53,494 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saint Louis Park | 50,010 | 4 ppb |
| Richfield | 38,482 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Minneapolis, MN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Minneapolis, MN 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 Saint Anthony Village 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.