Homestead Acres County Water And Sewer, MT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Homestead Acres County Water And Sewer
Homestead Acres County Water And Sewer serves about 500 people through 240 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cascade County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000526; phone on file: 406-453-5814. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2019 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Homestead Acres County Water And Sewer is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 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. Homestead Acres County Water And Sewer's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 34th percentile in Montana and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
41 other systems share Cascade County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Homestead Acres County Water And Sewer. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Great Falls City Of | 60,000 | 12 ppb |
| Malmstrom Air Force Base | 8,850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sun Prairie Village County | 1,800 | 1 ppb |
| Black Eagle Cascade County Water Sewer | 1,233 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prairie Water Company | 1,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cascade Town Of | 650 | 2 ppb |
| Belt Town Of | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vaughn Cascade County Water And Sewer | 585 | 0 (not detected) |
| Two Buttes Water Users Assn | 525 | 2 ppb |
| Gore Hill County Water Dist | 500 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Great Falls, MT
Look up your address in Homestead Acres County Water And Sewer's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Homestead Acres County Water And Sewer 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.