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Kingsbury Colony

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
120 people
Connections
15
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Valier, MT
County
Pondera
Owner
Private

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Uranium, nitrate, fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic and chromium (total): Montana’s own results, samples taken from April 20, 2020 to Aug. 4, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.7 ppb, in 2022: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

9.9ppm

Highest sample; found in 47 of 47

2026 average: 1.2 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 9.9 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 1.2 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 13.2 ppm, in 2012, and EPA recorded violations in 2012 and 2019.

What handles it

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

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.27ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.27 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

4.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2025

2025, one sample: 1.2 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 4.2 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.2 ppb.

What handles it

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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.8 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 1.9 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

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

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 SampleOct. 1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 201911.4 MG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 3 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, nitrate, fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic and chromium (total) results here are Montana’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Kingsbury Colony’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 April 20, 2020 to Aug. 4, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Kingsbury Colony’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 Kingsbury Colony 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 MT0002031. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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