Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
About Fairmont Hot Springs Resort
Fairmont Hot Springs Resort serves about 1,965 people through 92 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Silver Bow County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000589; phone on file: 406-797-3241. 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 2017 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fairmont Hot Springs Resort is 2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
How Fairmont Hot Springs Resort 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. Fairmont Hot Springs Resort's 2 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Montana and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
2 other systems share Silver Bow County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fairmont Hot Springs Resort. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Butte Silverbow Water Dept | 33,000 | 2 ppb |
| Ramsay Water And Sewer District | 97 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Anaconda, MT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Anaconda, 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 Fairmont Hot Springs Resort 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.