Crystal Lake Subdivision Hoa, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Crystal Lake Subdivision Hoa at a glance
Crystal Lake Subdivision Hoa serves about 34 people through 38 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lincoln County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0001145; phone on file: 406-291-6391. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Crystal Lake Subdivision Hoa's lead record
That is down 4 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Crystal Lake Subdivision Hoa is 6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
How Crystal Lake Subdivision Hoa 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. Crystal Lake Subdivision Hoa's 2 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Montana and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Lincoln County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Crystal Lake Subdivision Hoa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Libby City Of | 4,892 | 2 ppb |
| Troy City Of | 2,100 | 2 ppb |
| Eureka Town Of | 1,995 | 1 ppb |
| Indian Springs Ranch Sub | 455 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wilderness Club The | 440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wilderness Plateau Water And Sewer Dist | 208 | 2 ppb |
| Pinewood Village | 160 | 4 ppb |
| Rexford Town Of | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
| Emkayan Village Co Water And Sewer Dist | 160 | 2 ppb |
| Angel Island Subdivision | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fortine, 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 Crystal Lake Subdivision Hoa 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.