Alberton Town Of, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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.
Alberton Town Of at a glance
Alberton Town Of serves about 495 people through 213 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 Mineral County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000015; phone on file: 406-722-3404. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2017 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alberton Town Of is 4 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
Against other Montana systems
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. Alberton Town Of's 4 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Montana and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Mineral County
8 other systems share Mineral County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alberton Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Superior Town Of | 1,100 | 1 ppb |
| Shyrock Motorcoach Community | 150 | - |
| West Mountain Estates | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Trestle Creek I And Ii | 110 | 1 ppb |
| High Country Mhp Llc | 76 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deer Lick Subdivision Water District | 70 | 1 ppb |
| Cougar Meadows | 45 | 0 (not detected) |
| Old Mill Peninsula Hoa | 40 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Alberton, 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 Alberton Town 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.