Golden Age Village, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Golden Age Village at a glance
Golden Age Village serves about 180 people through 51 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Park County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0003313; phone on file: 406-599-0262. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2018 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Golden Age Village is 1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Golden Age Village 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. Golden Age Village's 1 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Montana and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Park County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Golden Age Village. 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 |
| Gardiner Park Co Water Dist | 700 | 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) |
| 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Emigrant, 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 Golden Age Village 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.