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Ashley Trails

What EPA’s and Montana’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
27 people
Connections
11
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Kalispell, MT
County
Flathead
Owner
Private

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Fluoride, nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic and chromium (total): Montana’s own results, samples taken from April 22, 2020 to Nov. 18, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Oct. 17, 2019 to Nov. 19, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

12.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 12.2 ppb, in 2019: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 12.6 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.48ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024, one sample: 0.42 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.48 ppm, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.42 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.51 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.51ppm

One sample

2020, one sample: 0.51 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 0.51 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That is the only year on file, and its one sample was 0.51 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.34 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.66ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.66 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

None of the filters TapBuff has checked so far carry these claims. Search the certifier listings for the claim above.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 78 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Fluoride, nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic and chromium (total) results here are Montana’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium comes from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Ashley Trails’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Montana’s results run from April 22, 2020 to Nov. 18, 2024; EPA’s compliance samples are from Oct. 17, 2019 to Nov. 19, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Ashley Trails’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Montana certifies.

No lab Montana certifies is within 75 miles of the area Ashley Trails serves on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

Montana State Environmental Laboratory: Private well testing packages for bacteria, metals, nutrients, anions, organic chemicals and more, open to the public. Samples can be mailed, sent by the lab's free courier, or dropped off at the lab. Environmental Laboratory, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services.

All 36 certified labs for Montana

Sources

PWSID MT0004945. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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