Vaughn Cascade County Water And Sewer, 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.
About Vaughn Cascade County Water And Sewer
Vaughn Cascade County Water And Sewer serves about 585 people through 209 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Cascade County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0000352; phone on file: 406-964-8880. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Vaughn Cascade County Water And Sewer's lead record
Against the period ending 2018 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Vaughn Cascade County Water And Sewer is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Vaughn Cascade County Water And Sewer's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 34th percentile in Montana and the 23rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
41 other systems share Cascade County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Vaughn Cascade County Water And Sewer. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Great Falls City Of | 60,000 | 12 ppb |
| Malmstrom Air Force Base | 8,850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sun Prairie Village County | 1,800 | 1 ppb |
| Black Eagle Cascade County Water Sewer | 1,233 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prairie Water Company | 1,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cascade Town Of | 650 | 2 ppb |
| Belt Town Of | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Two Buttes Water Users Assn | 525 | 2 ppb |
| Gore Hill County Water Dist | 500 | 1 ppb |
| Homestead Acres County Water And Sewer | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Vaughn Cascade County Water And Sewer'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 Vaughn Cascade County Water And Sewer 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.