Westbrook, MN
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Westbrook serves about 785 people through 425 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 Cottonwood County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1170005; phone on file: 5072746712. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 6 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Westbrook is 11 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
How Westbrook 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. Westbrook's 11 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Minnesota and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Cottonwood County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Westbrook. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Red Rock Rural Water System | 5,840 | 2 ppb |
| Windom | 4,646 | 3 ppb |
| Mountain Lake | 2,018 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jeffers | 369 | 0 (not detected) |
| Storden | 215 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bingham Lake | 128 | 3 ppb |
| Delft | 58 | 4 ppb |
| Neuhof Hutterian Brethren | 55 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Westbrook, 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 Westbrook 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.