Golden Eagle Water Users Assn, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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 Eagle Water Users Assn at a glance
Golden Eagle Water Users Assn serves about 125 people through 49 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Yellowstone County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0002840; phone on file: 406-860-0617. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Golden Eagle Water Users Assn is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Golden Eagle Water Users Assn 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 Eagle Water Users Assn's 1 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Montana and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
45 other systems share Yellowstone County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Golden Eagle Water Users Assn. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Billings City Of | 114,000 | 3 ppb |
| Billings Heights Co Water Dist Of | 12,000 | 3 ppb |
| Laurel Municipal Water System | 6,339 | 2 ppb |
| Lockwood Water And Sewer District | 5,900 | 3 ppb |
| Pioneer Water Service | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Go 2 U Water Delivery | 875 | 0 (not detected) |
| Worden Ballantine Yellowstone | 800 | 3 ppb |
| Fisher Water Service | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherry Creek Estates Llc | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Windsor Estates | 530 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Billings, MT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Billings, 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 Eagle Water Users Assn 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.