Westhope City Of, ND
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.
About Westhope City Of
Westhope City Of serves about 429 people through 250 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Bottineau County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND0501001; phone on file: 701-245-6316. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.4 ppb from 2.4 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Westhope City Of is 2.4 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.17 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.26 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.28 ppb |
Against other North Dakota systems
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. Westhope City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 22nd percentile in North Dakota and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Bottineau County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Westhope City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bottineau City Of | 2,211 | 1.05 ppb |
| All Seasons Wd-System I | 890 | 1.81 ppb |
| All Seasons Wd-System Iii | 790 | 5.51 ppb |
| Lansford City Of | 245 | 2.65 ppb |
| Willow City City Of | 163 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maxbass City Of | 84 | 0.73 ppb |
| Souris City Of | 58 | 0.84 ppb |
Next steps for Westhope, ND
Look up your address in Westhope City Of'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 Westhope City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1760 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.