White Pine Villas, MN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 White Pine Villas
White Pine Villas serves about 25 people through 16 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. EPA system ID: MN1180035; phone on file: 6128396990. 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 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for White Pine Villas is 2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Minnesota systems
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. White Pine Villas's 2 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Minnesota and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Crow Wing County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than White Pine Villas. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brainerd | 14,670 | 2 ppb |
| Baxter | 9,341 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crosby | 2,377 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pequot Lakes | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ironton | 578 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deerwood | 530 | 5 ppb |
| Crow Wing Estates | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cuyuna | 175 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverton | 126 | 0 (not detected) |
| Knieff'S Shore Acres | 100 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Nisswa, MN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Nisswa, 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 White Pine Villas 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.