Pine Hills Youth Correct Facil, MT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Pine Hills Youth Correct Facil serves about 193 people through 8 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws surface water, in Custer County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000292; phone on file: 406-233-2311. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Pine Hills Youth Correct Facil's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pine Hills Youth Correct Facil is 1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1 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. Pine Hills Youth Correct Facil's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in Montana and the 15th 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 Pine Hills Youth Correct Facil. 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) |
| Palisades Apartments | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Miles City, MT
Look up your address in Pine Hills Youth Correct Facil'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 Pine Hills Youth Correct Facil 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.