Wapiti Acres County Water And Sewer Dist, MT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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 Wapiti Acres County Water And Sewer Dist
Wapiti Acres County Water And Sewer Dist serves about 32 people through 16 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 Flathead County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0003774; phone on file: 406-260-8216. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 37 ppb from 39 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wapiti Acres County Water And Sewer Dist is 39 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 39 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 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. Wapiti Acres County Water And Sewer Dist's 2 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Montana and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Flathead County
135 other systems share Flathead County; 30 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wapiti Acres County Water And Sewer Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kalispell Public Works | 25,000 | 2 ppb |
| Whitefish City Of | 10,418 | 2 ppb |
| Flathead County Water And Sewer | 9,520 | 1 ppb |
| Bigfork County Water And Sewer | 6,100 | 2 ppb |
| Columbia Falls City Of | 4,450 | 4 ppb |
| Big Mountain Water Company | 2,435 | 7 ppb |
| Lakeside Water System | 1,225 | 3 ppb |
| Hungry Horse Co Water And Sewer District | 1,135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadow Lake Co Water And Sewer District | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Somers Co Water And Sewer Dist | 765 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Kalispell, MT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kalispell, 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 Wapiti Acres County Water And Sewer Dist 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.