Gardiner Park Co Water Dist, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2015-2017). 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.
Gardiner Park Co Water Dist at a glance
Gardiner Park Co Water Dist serves about 700 people through 448 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Park County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000224; phone on file: 406-848-7734. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2016 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gardiner Park Co Water Dist is 2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Gardiner Park Co Water Dist 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. Gardiner Park Co Water Dist's 2 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Montana and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Park County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gardiner Park Co Water Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Livingston City Of | 9,200 | 2 ppb |
| Clyde Park Water Dept | 300 | 2.49 ppb |
| Cooke City Water District | 300 | 2 ppb |
| Wilsall Water District | 250 | 2 ppb |
| East Gate Work Camp | 208 | 0 (not detected) |
| Golden Age Village | 180 | 1 ppb |
| Cinnabar The | 175 | 15 ppb |
| Avalon Subdivision | 135 | 0.44 ppb |
| Windmill Trailer Park Well 2 | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Windmill Trailer Park Well 1 | 110 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gardiner, 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 Gardiner Park Co Water Dist 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.