Havre City Of, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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.
About Havre City Of
Havre City Of serves about 9,921 people through 3,644 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Hill County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000524; phone on file: 406-265-4941. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Havre City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Havre City Of is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Havre City Of 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. Havre City Of's 3 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Montana and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Hill County
9 other systems share Hill County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Havre City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hill County Water Districts | 1,720 | 1 ppb |
| East End Colony Inc | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Havre County Water Dist | 90 | 3 ppb |
| Ncmrwa North Havre Cwd Leg | 90 | 11 ppb |
| Bitterroot Tp Havre Unapproved | 88 | - |
| Hidden Valley Colony | 80 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hilldale Colony | 79 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cool Spring Colony | 75 | 1 ppb |
| Gildford Colony | 70 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Havre, 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 Havre City 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.