Magnolia Estates, MT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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 Magnolia Estates
Magnolia Estates serves about 140 people through 57 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Missoula County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0004021; phone on file: 406-544-6815. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2019 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Magnolia Estates is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Magnolia Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in Montana and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Missoula County
80 other systems share Missoula County; 48 of them have a higher latest lead result than Magnolia Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Missoula Water | 68,200 | 2 ppb |
| Lolo Water And Sewer Dist | 3,315 | 2 ppb |
| Seeley Lake Water District | 1,575 | 4 ppb |
| El Mar Estates Msla Co Water | 1,350 | 1 ppb |
| Westview Mobile Home Park | 947 | 1 ppb |
| Phantom Hills Water System | 810 | 3 ppb |
| Travois Village Mobile Park | 702 | 2 ppb |
| Wye Area Water System | 512 | 1 ppb |
| Grant Creek Water Users Association Inc | 380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Katoonah Lodges | 258 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Magnolia Estates'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 Magnolia Estates 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.