East Vassalboro Water Company Llc, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
East Vassalboro Water Company Llc at a glance
East Vassalboro Water Company Llc serves about 205 people through 82 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kennebec County, Montana. EPA system ID: ME0090500; phone on file: 406-393-2126. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
East Vassalboro Water Company Llc's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (1.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Vassalboro Water Company Llc is 1.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 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. East Vassalboro Water Company Llc's 1 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Montana and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kalispell, 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 East Vassalboro Water Company Llc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.