Settlement The, MT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Settlement The
Settlement The serves about 100 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Gallatin County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0004363; phone on file: 406-282-6035. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Settlement The's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Settlement The is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Settlement The 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. Settlement The's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Montana and the 9th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
59 other systems share Gallatin County; 51 of them have a higher latest lead result than Settlement The. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bozeman City Of | 56,000 | 1.6 ppb |
| Belgrade City Of | 10,460 | 1.79 ppb |
| West Yellowstone Town Of | 9,899 | 1.25 ppb |
| North Star Zoot Water | 4,323 | 3 ppb |
| River Rock County Water And Sewer Dist | 4,200 | 2.81 ppb |
| Rae Water And Sewer Dist 313 | 2,325 | 2.08 ppb |
| Three Forks City Of | 1,900 | 2 ppb |
| Manhattan Town Of | 1,800 | 2 ppb |
| Valley Grove Subdivision | 825 | 2.04 ppb |
| Landmark Subdivision | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Manhattan, MT
Look up your address in Settlement The'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 Settlement The 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.