Tracy, MN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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.
About Tracy
Tracy serves about 2,154 people through 916 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lyon County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1420010; phone on file: 5076295528. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tracy is 4 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Tracy 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. Tracy's 4 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Minnesota and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Lyon County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Tracy. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marshall | 13,890 | 8 ppb |
| Minneota | 1,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cottonwood | 1,212 | 0 (not detected) |
| Balaton | 639 | 3 ppb |
| Lynd | 448 | 1 ppb |
| Ghent | 370 | 0 (not detected) |
| Russell | 338 | 2 ppb |
| Taunton | 135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Garvin | 135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairview Township Water Association | 89 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tracy, 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 Tracy whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1930 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. 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.