Paradise Water District, MT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 ppb (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. 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.
Paradise Water District at a glance
Paradise Water District serves about 200 people through 93 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 Sanders County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000385; phone on file: 406-826-2444. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Paradise Water District is 6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1 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. Paradise Water District's 6 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Montana and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sanders County
11 other systems share Sanders County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Paradise Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Thompson Falls City Of | 1,950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plains Town Of | 1,700 | 2 ppb |
| Hot Springs Municipal Water | 982 | 0 (not detected) |
| Water Service Inc Trout Creek | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Noxon Water District | 330 | 0 (not detected) |
| Salish Shores Trade Winds Comm Village | 215 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodside Park County Water And Sewer Dis | 115 | 0 (not detected) |
| Heron Community Water System | 84 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clear View Academy | 70 | 1 ppb |
| North Shore Estates Hoa | 65 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Paradise, 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 Paradise Water 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.