Woodside Park County Water And Sewer Dis, MT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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
Woodside Park County Water And Sewer Dis serves about 115 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 Sanders County, Montana. EPA system ID: MT0002986; phone on file: 406-499-1283. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2017 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woodside Park County Water And Sewer Dis is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Woodside Park County Water And Sewer Dis 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. Woodside Park County Water And Sewer Dis's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st percentile in Montana and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Sanders County
11 other systems share Sanders County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woodside Park County Water And Sewer Dis. 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) |
| Paradise Water District | 200 | 6 ppb |
| Heron Community Water System | 84 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clear View Academy | 70 | 1 ppb |
| North Shore Estates Hoa | 65 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Thompson Falls, MT
Look up your address in Woodside Park County Water And Sewer Dis'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 Woodside Park County Water And Sewer Dis 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.