East View Acres Water System, MT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
East View Acres Water System serves about 25 people through 10 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Missoula County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0003565; phone on file: 406-531-6738. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
East View Acres Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East View Acres Water System is 16 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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 View Acres Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 0th percentile in Montana and the 0th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Missoula County
80 other systems share Missoula County; 48 of them have a higher latest lead result than East View Acres Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Missoula Water | 68,200 | 2 ppb |
| Lolo Water And Sewer Dist | 3,315 | 2 ppb |
| Seeley Lake Water District | 1,575 | 4 ppb |
| El Mar Estates Msla Co Water | 1,350 | 1 ppb |
| Westview Mobile Home Park | 947 | 1 ppb |
| Phantom Hills Water System | 810 | 3 ppb |
| Travois Village Mobile Park | 702 | 2 ppb |
| Wye Area Water System | 512 | 1 ppb |
| Grant Creek Water Users Association Inc | 380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Katoonah Lodges | 258 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Missoula, 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 View Acres Water System 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.