What North Dakota publishes about lead testing in its schools’ drinking water, what those numbers cover, and how we checked it. One row of a 51-jurisdiction survey, verified jurisdiction by jurisdiction rather than compiled from a single list.
North DakotaPublishes nothing (confirmed at source)
Published action level, as verified in 2026: 15 ppb
Action levels are not comparable between jurisdictions: across the 51 we surveyed they run from 1 ppb to 20 ppb, so a share of results above “the action level” measures the threshold as much as it measures the water. We never rank states on it. Where a jurisdiction explains how its own level was set, the verified research note at the foot of this page records the explanation verbatim.
We found no school lead testing results published by North Dakota. That is confirmed at source: we checked the jurisdiction's own pages or data platform and found no results in them.
An absence of published results is a fact about disclosure, not about water. It says nothing about whether schools here have been tested, and nothing about what a test would find.
The baseline is the National Association of State Boards of Education’s 2021 survey. Every 2026 value below was re-checked for this survey; a value that did not move is a finding too.
Nothing in this row moved between the 2021 baseline and our 2026 verification.
Our field note for North Dakota, published verbatim rather than summarised. Where it quotes a figure from a source, that is the source’s own number reproduced as we recorded it, not a rate we computed — everything we compute states its denominator and its unit.
CONFIRMED still not publishing. NDDEQ runs a statewide VOLUNTARY screening program and publishes program guidance only -- no list, table, spreadsheet or map of results. Worse than voluntary: 'there are no funds available from NDDEQ to pay the costs to test water samples from schools and child care facilities for lead', so interested facilities must pay at their own expense. Unfunded and unpublished.
TapWaterData Editorial. "School drinking water lead testing: North Dakota." TapWaterData national school drinking-water lead testing database. Last updated 2026-08-09. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. https://www.tapwaterdata.com/school-lead-testing/north-dakota
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