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Duck Creek Mobile Home Park

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
70 people
Connections
31
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Billings, MT
County
Yellowstone
Owner
Private
Hardness
Very hard
The ZIP code it serves

59101

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit, and 3 more are above the health goal. The worst: Nitrate, above the legal limit. 3 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2007 to 2027.

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 1.6 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 1999. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Nitrate, arsenic, uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and chromium (total): Montana’s own results, samples taken from March 17, 2020 to Sept. 17, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the legal limit1

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Above the legal limit

11.3ppm

Highest sample; found in 61 of 61

2026 average: 5.8 ppm

From 2024 to 2025, three samples were above EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm, the highest 11.3 ppm in 2025. The next sample at the same point, within 30 days, kept the average above the limit for one; two have no follow-up sample on file within 30 days. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 5.8 ppm. EPA recorded violations for nitrate at this utility in 2024 and 2025. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 9.7 ppm, in 2014.

What handles it

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

Above the health goal3

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

7.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025 average: 5.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 7.5 ppb, in 2022: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 8.0 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 5.0 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 7.0 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

8.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 8.1 ppb, in 2022: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 8.7 ppb. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 7.5 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

1.0ppb

90th percentile, 2025 to 2027

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.0 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

20.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 20.1 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 36 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 62 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.75ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025 average: 0.55 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.75 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.8 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.55 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.0 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

3.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.0 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 25 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

One compound tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Chromium (total)

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.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claims: Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge), Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Nitrate, Arsenic, Lead

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Uranium, Lead Reduction

    For: Nitrate, Arsenic, Uranium, Lead

    Other certifiers’ wording: Nitrate; Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Hardness

Very hard, typically 422 mg/L (24.7 grains per gallon), across 2 sampling points, in 2025.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Nitrate-NitriteA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleJuly 1, 2025 to Sept. 30, 202511.3 MG/LArchived
Nitrate-NitriteA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleOct. 1, 2024 to Dec. 31, 202410.5 MG/LArchived
Nitrate-NitriteA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleJuly 1, 2024 to Sept. 30, 202410.5 MG/LArchived
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 15 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, arsenic, uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and chromium (total) results here are Montana’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Duck Creek Mobile Home Park’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has 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 March 17, 2020 to Sept. 17, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Duck Creek Mobile Home Park’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.

The lab Montana certifies closest to the area Duck Creek Mobile Home Park serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Energy Laboratories, Inc.

    Billings, MT · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals

    (800) 735-4489

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.

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Sources

PWSID MT0001786. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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