Woodworth City Of, ND
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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. 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.
Woodworth City Of at a glance
Woodworth City Of serves about 50 people through 70 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 Stutsman County, North Dakota. EPA system ID: ND4701042. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Woodworth City Of's lead record
That is down 9 ppb from 11 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woodworth City Of is 11 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 4.22 ppb |
How Woodworth City Of compares
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. Woodworth City Of's 2 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in North Dakota and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Stutsman County
7 other systems share Stutsman County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woodworth City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jamestown City Of | 15,427 | 9.08 ppb |
| Stutsman Rural Water District | 5,550 | 1.4 ppb |
| Medina City Of | 308 | 2.15 ppb |
| Streeter City Of | 170 | 0.68 ppb |
| Kensal City Of | 163 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montpelier City Of | 87 | 1.72 ppb |
| Cleveland City Of | 83 | 3.02 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Woodworth, ND 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 Woodworth City Of 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.