Cherry Creek Wua Glasgow, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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.
About Cherry Creek Wua Glasgow
Cherry Creek Wua Glasgow serves about 180 people through 60 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 Valley County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000228; phone on file: 406-230-0552. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2019 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cherry Creek Wua Glasgow is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Cherry Creek Wua Glasgow's 3 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Montana and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Valley County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cherry Creek Wua Glasgow. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Glasgow City Of | 3,253 | 6 ppb |
| Fort Peck Rural County Water District | 663 | 5 ppb |
| North Valley County Water And Sewer Dist | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nashua Town Of | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hinsdale Water Department | 250 | 29 ppb |
| Fort Peck Town Of | 240 | 1 ppb |
| Opheim Town Of | 111 | 9 ppb |
Next steps for Glasgow, MT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glasgow, 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 Cherry Creek Wua Glasgow 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.