Welcome, MN
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Welcome serves about 653 people through 324 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 Martin County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1460011; phone on file: 5077288740. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 2 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Welcome is 27 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 27 ppb over 15 |
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. Welcome's 1 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Minnesota and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Martin County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Welcome. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fairmont | 10,328 | 1 ppb |
| Truman | 1,115 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sherburn | 1,058 | 4 ppb |
| Trimont | 734 | 6 ppb |
| Ceylon | 369 | 2 ppb |
| Granada | 297 | 9 ppb |
| Northrop | 211 | 7 ppb |
| Dunnell | 167 | 7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Welcome, 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 Welcome 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.