Whitewood Forest Acres, SD
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (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. 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.
Whitewood Forest Acres at a glance
Whitewood Forest Acres serves about 160 people through 62 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lawrence County, South Dakota. EPA system ID: SD4602354. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Whitewood Forest Acres is 3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
Against other South Dakota systems
Of the 458 South Dakota systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 2 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 6 have gone over at some point. Whitewood Forest Acres's 1 ppb sits at the 24th percentile in South Dakota and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lawrence County
41 other systems share Lawrence County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Whitewood Forest Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Spearfish | 13,803 | 3 ppb |
| Lead | 2,982 | 1 ppb |
| Deadwood | 1,156 | 2 ppb |
| Whitewood | 879 | 1 ppb |
| Terry Trojan Water District | 400 | 4 ppb |
| Mountain Plains 2 Homeowners Assoc | 268 | 1 ppb |
| Saint Onge Sewer & Water Co | 255 | 2 ppb |
| Boulder Park Water Users Association | 200 | 1 ppb |
| Rendezvous Ranch | 195 | 1 ppb |
| Lantern Estates | 192 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Whitewood, SD 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 Whitewood Forest Acres 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.