Turtle Lake City Of, ND
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.16 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Turtle Lake City Of serves about 581 people through 389 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 Mclean County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND2800949; phone on file: 701-448-2596. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Turtle Lake City Of's lead record
That is up 2.2 ppb from 1.96 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Turtle Lake City Of is 4.16 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.16 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.96 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.09 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. Turtle Lake City Of's 4.16 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in North Dakota and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Mclean County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Turtle Lake City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Garrison Rural Water District | 1,805 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mclean-Sheridan Water District-System 1 | 1,800 | 1.07 ppb |
| Garrison City Of | 1,453 | 2.12 ppb |
| Washburn City Of | 1,246 | 5.08 ppb |
| Underwood City Of | 778 | 2.6 ppb |
| Mclean-Sheridan Water District-System 3 | 400 | 2.22 ppb |
| Mclean-Sheridan Water District-System 2 | 390 | 0.78 ppb |
| Max City Of | 334 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverdale City Of | 205 | 1.22 ppb |
| Mercer City Of | 94 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Turtle Lake, 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 Turtle Lake City Of 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.