Huntley Yellowstone Co Water And Sewer, MT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Huntley Yellowstone Co Water And Sewer
Huntley Yellowstone Co Water And Sewer serves about 230 people through 150 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Yellowstone County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000254; phone on file: 406-348-2517. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Huntley Yellowstone Co Water And Sewer's lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Huntley Yellowstone Co Water And Sewer is 30 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 30 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
Against other Montana systems
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. Huntley Yellowstone Co Water And Sewer's 2 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Montana and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Yellowstone County
45 other systems share Yellowstone County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Huntley Yellowstone Co Water And Sewer. 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 Huntley, MT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Huntley, 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 Huntley Yellowstone Co Water And Sewer whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1560 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.