Dutton Town Of, MT
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 27 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2028). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Dutton Town Of
Dutton Town Of serves about 338 people through 192 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 Teton County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000204; phone on file: 406-476-3311. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Dutton Town Of's lead record
That is up 26 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dutton Town Of is 27 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 27 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Dutton Town Of 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. Dutton Town Of's 27 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Montana and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Teton County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dutton Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Choteau City Of | 1,691 | 4 ppb |
| Fairfield Town Of | 718 | 1 ppb |
| Tri County Water District | 470 | 1 ppb |
| Power Teton County Water Dist | 205 | 5 ppb |
| New Rockport Colony Inc | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bynum - Teton Co W & S District | 100 | 3 ppb |
| Rockport Colony | 92 | 2 ppb |
| Miller Colony | 84 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Dutton, MT
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Dutton Town Of 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.