North Baker Water And Or Sewer Dist, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (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. 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.
North Baker Water And Or Sewer Dist at a glance
North Baker Water And Or Sewer Dist serves about 112 people through 40 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 Fallon County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0004404; phone on file: 406-778-2118. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 3 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for North Baker Water And Or Sewer Dist is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 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. North Baker Water And Or Sewer Dist's 1 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Montana and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
3 other systems share Fallon County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than North Baker Water And Or Sewer Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Baker City Of | 1,858 | 3 ppb |
| Plevna Town Of | 130 | 1 ppb |
| Fallon County Water District | 85 | 24 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Baker, 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 North Baker Water And Or Sewer Dist 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.