Lima Town Of, MT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Lima Town Of
Lima Town Of serves about 279 people through 207 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 Beaverhead County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000276; phone on file: 406-276-3521. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lima Town Of's lead record
That is down 1.71 ppb from 1.71 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lima Town Of is 3.85 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.71 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.85 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. Lima Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 30th percentile in Montana and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Beaverhead County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lima Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dillon City Of | 4,300 | 3 ppb |
| Keller Subdivision No 2 Hoa | 300 | 2 ppb |
| Hildreth Subdivision No 2 | 300 | 3 ppb |
| Hildreth Subdivision No 3 | 128 | 0 (not detected) |
| Western Mobile Village Dillon | 75 | 4 ppb |
| Skyline Tr Ct And Rv Park | 75 | 2 ppb |
| Clarks Lookout | 62 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beaverhead Jackson Water And Sewer Dist | 58 | 7 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Lima Town Of'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 Lima Town 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.