Bridger Town Of, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (monitoring period 2014-2016). 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.
Bridger Town Of at a glance
Bridger Town Of serves about 750 people through 378 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 Carbon County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000165; phone on file: 406-662-3677. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bridger Town Of is 4 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
How Bridger Town Of 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. Bridger Town Of's 4 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Montana and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Carbon County
11 other systems share Carbon County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Bridger Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Red Lodge Water Dept | 2,000 | 3 ppb |
| Joliet Town Of | 600 | 3 ppb |
| Fromberg Town Of | 498 | 5 ppb |
| Roberts Wua Carbon Co Water And Sewer | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belfry Carbon Co Water And Sewer Dist | 205 | 1 ppb |
| Bearcreek Municipal Water Sys | 200 | 3 ppb |
| Vwa Services | 93 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cooney Enterprises | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rio Vista Estates Hoa Assoc Inc | 50 | 3 ppb |
| Evergreen Subdivision | 45 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bridger, 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 Bridger 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.