Country Haven Estates Whispering Pines, MT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Country Haven Estates Whispering Pines
Country Haven Estates Whispering Pines serves about 100 people through 80 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Stillwater County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0004376; phone on file: 406-579-4449. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Country Haven Estates Whispering Pines is 3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
How Country Haven Estates Whispering Pines 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. Country Haven Estates Whispering Pines's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Montana and the 9th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Stillwater County
6 other systems share Stillwater County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Country Haven Estates Whispering Pines. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Columbus Town Of | 1,900 | 3 ppb |
| Absarokee Water And Sewer Dist | 1,100 | 14 ppb |
| Rapelje Water District | 70 | 3 ppb |
| Eagle Mountain Rural Pws | 50 | 4 ppb |
| Hilltop Water | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sherwood Water Station | 25 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Country Haven Estates Whispering Pines's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Country Haven Estates Whispering Pines 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.