Fort Peck Town Of, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Fort Peck Town Of at a glance
Fort Peck Town Of serves about 240 people through 153 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 surface water, in Valley County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000218; phone on file: 406-526-3220. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Fort Peck Town Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Peck Town Of is 2 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 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. Fort Peck Town Of's 1 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Montana and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Valley County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fort Peck Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Glasgow City Of | 3,253 | 6 ppb |
| Fort Peck Rural County Water District | 663 | 5 ppb |
| North Valley County Water And Sewer Dist | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nashua Town Of | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hinsdale Water Department | 250 | 29 ppb |
| Cherry Creek Wua Glasgow | 180 | 3 ppb |
| Opheim Town Of | 111 | 9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Peck, 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 Fort Peck 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. 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.