Camp Creek Wua Inc, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Camp Creek Wua Inc at a glance
Camp Creek Wua Inc serves about 50 people through 29 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 Phillips County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0004378; phone on file: 406-654-7293. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 6 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Camp Creek Wua Inc is 7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 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. Camp Creek Wua Inc's 1 ppb sits at the 45th percentile in Montana and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Phillips County
6 other systems share Phillips County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Camp Creek Wua Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Malta City Of | 1,800 | 2 ppb |
| Saco Town Of | 180 | 1 ppb |
| Phillips County Zortman Water And Sewer | 169 | 1 ppb |
| Dodson Town Of | 120 | 1 ppb |
| East Malta Colony | 47 | 0 (not detected) |
| Loring Hutterian Brethren Inc | 45 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Malta, 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 Camp Creek Wua Inc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.