Absarokee Water And Sewer Dist, MT
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Absarokee Water And Sewer Dist at a glance
Absarokee Water And Sewer Dist serves about 1,100 people through 471 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Stillwater County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000003; phone on file: 406-328-4748. 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 9 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Absarokee Water And Sewer Dist is 14 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 5 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
How Absarokee Water And Sewer Dist compares
Of the 753 Montana systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 5 are over 15 ppb right now and 28 have gone over at some point. Absarokee Water And Sewer Dist's 14 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Montana and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Stillwater County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Absarokee Water And Sewer Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Columbus Town Of | 1,900 | 3 ppb |
| Country Haven Estates Whispering Pines | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rapelje Water District | 70 | 3 ppb |
| Eagle Mountain Rural Pws | 50 | 4 ppb |
| Hilltop Water | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sherwood Water Station | 25 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Absarokee, MT 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 Absarokee Water And Sewer Dist 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.