Christian Childrens Ranch, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Christian Childrens Ranch
Christian Childrens Ranch serves about 65 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lake County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0003720; phone on file: 406-546-9015. 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 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Christian Childrens Ranch is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Christian Childrens Ranch 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. Christian Childrens Ranch's 1 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Montana and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
24 other systems share Lake County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Christian Childrens Ranch. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Polson City Of | 5,300 | 2 ppb |
| Ronan City Of | 2,483 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pablo Lake County Water And Sewer Dist | 2,175 | 0 (not detected) |
| St Ignatius Town Of | 700 | 1 ppb |
| Woods Bay Water And Sewer District | 685 | 4 ppb |
| Consolidated Charlo Lake Co W And S Dist | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Round Butte Water Company | 400 | 2 ppb |
| Jette Meadows Lake Co W And S Dist | 375 | 1 ppb |
| Jette Lake Landowners Association | 295 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ridgewood Estates | 250 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for St Ignatius, MT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; St Ignatius, 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 Christian Childrens Ranch 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.