Martinsdale Water And Sewer District, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
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. 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.
Martinsdale Water And Sewer District at a glance
Martinsdale Water And Sewer District serves about 75 people through 87 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 Meagher County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000287; phone on file: 406-670-3917. 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 2018 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Martinsdale Water And Sewer District is 2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
How Martinsdale Water And Sewer District 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. Martinsdale Water And Sewer District's 2 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Montana and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Meagher County
2 other systems share Meagher County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Martinsdale Water And Sewer District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| White Sulphur Springs City Of | 1,000 | 2 ppb |
| Springdale Hutterite Colony | 87 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Martinsdale, 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 Martinsdale Water And Sewer District 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.