Palisades Apartments, MT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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 Palisades Apartments
Palisades Apartments serves about 50 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Custer County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000145; phone on file: 406-951-1473. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Palisades Apartments is 30 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, 8 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 7 ppb |
| 2022 | 7 ppb |
| 2022 | 30 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 8 ppb |
| 2016 | 8 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. Palisades Apartments's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Montana and the 3rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Custer County
3 other systems share Custer County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Palisades Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Miles City City Of | 9,565 | 3 ppb |
| Custer Co Water And Sewer Dist | 480 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Hills Youth Correct Facil | 193 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Miles City, MT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Miles City, 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 Palisades Apartments 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.