Selz Water Users Association, ND
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.14 ppb (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. 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.
Selz Water Users Association at a glance
Selz Water Users Association serves about 43 people through 29 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pierce County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND3501069; phone on file: 701-324-5262. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (2.98 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Selz Water Users Association is 2.98 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.14 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.98 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.59 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Selz Water Users Association's 2.14 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in North Dakota and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
2 other systems share Pierce County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Selz Water Users Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rugby City Of | 2,876 | 8.56 ppb |
| All Seasons Wd-System V | 1,075 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Selz, ND
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Selz, ND 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 Selz Water Users Association 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.