St. John'S Lutheran Community, MN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
St. John'S Lutheran Community at a glance
St. John'S Lutheran Community serves about 228 people through 156 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Freeborn County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1240019; phone on file: 5073732040. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
St. John'S Lutheran Community's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St. John'S Lutheran Community is 0 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. St. John'S Lutheran Community's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Minnesota and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Freeborn County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than St. John'S Lutheran Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albert Lea | 18,492 | 2 ppb |
| Clarks Grove | 695 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alden | 661 | 7 ppb |
| Glenville | 566 | 0 (not detected) |
| Geneva | 538 | 0 (not detected) |
| Emmons | 384 | 1 ppb |
| Hartland | 321 | 3 ppb |
| Hollandale | 294 | 0 (not detected) |
| Freeborn | 259 | 2 ppb |
| Perennia Senior Living - Albert Lea | 256 | - |
Your move
Look up your address in St. John'S Lutheran Community's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask St. John'S Lutheran Community whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2080 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.