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East Helena Site

This site is currently on the EPA Superfund National Priorities List and remains under federal cleanup oversight. Most-cited contaminant of concern: Lead.

S Of East Helena, East Helena, Montana · ZIP 59635 · EPA ID MTD006230346

CLEANUP TIMELINE

Listing-date and cleanup-phase enrichment from EPA's per-site SEMS profile is queued for a follow-up ingest pass. Until then, this section will populate from EPA's published timeline data.

Anomaly engine

Notable Signals

No notable signals at this Superfund site for the current ingest. Cleanup-phase and SEMS-action flags are deferred to a follow-up engineering pass.

Contaminants of concern · per EPA SEMS

What's In This Site

Each row pairs a contaminant with the medium it was found in (the exposure pathway). Hover any named contaminant for an agency-cited health-risk summary. Cited count = number of SEMS decision records (RODs and related) that name the pair.

ContaminantPathwayCited
LeadHealth riskNeurotoxin. Even low childhood exposure impairs cognitive development; chronic adult exposure damages kidneys and the cardiovascular system. (EPA, ATSDR)Soil3
ArsenicHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen via inhalation and ingestion. EPA MCL 10 µg/L; chronic exposure causes skin, lung, bladder cancer and cardiovascular disease. (IARC, EPA, ATSDR)Soil2
ArsenicHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen via inhalation and ingestion. EPA MCL 10 µg/L; chronic exposure causes skin, lung, bladder cancer and cardiovascular disease. (IARC, EPA, ATSDR)Liquid Waste1
ArsenicHealth riskIARC Group 1 carcinogen via inhalation and ingestion. EPA MCL 10 µg/L; chronic exposure causes skin, lung, bladder cancer and cardiovascular disease. (IARC, EPA, ATSDR)Sludge1
LeadHealth riskNeurotoxin. Even low childhood exposure impairs cognitive development; chronic adult exposure damages kidneys and the cardiovascular system. (EPA, ATSDR)Liquid Waste1
LeadHealth riskNeurotoxin. Even low childhood exposure impairs cognitive development; chronic adult exposure damages kidneys and the cardiovascular system. (EPA, ATSDR)Sludge1
Drinking-water linkage · SDWIS

Groundwater Systems Serving Communities Within 3 Miles

The 18 systems below draw on groundwater (or mixed sources) and serve communities whose centroid sits within 3 miles of this site. Distance is to the served-city centroid — SDWIS does not expose individual wellhead locations, so this is a proximity screen, not a wellhead-impact assessment.

Water systemServesDistancePopulation servedSourceStatus
East Helena City Of MunicipalEast Helena0.0 mi2,114GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Masonic Home Of Montana PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi90GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Mcdonald Trailer Ct PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi75GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Buzz Inn PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi95GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Pele Park PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi186GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Phoenix Park PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi36GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Pebble Gardens Mobile Home Ct PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi125GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Eastgate Village Sewer And Water PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi2,000GROUNDWATERIn compliance
La Casa Grande Water And Sewer District PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi404GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Bahny Brae Subdivision PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi35GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED
Homestead Valley Wua Hvha PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi105GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Davis Meadow Village PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi180GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Skyview Water And Sewer Utility PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi400GROUNDWATER2 HEALTH-BASED · 5YR
Ruger Water District PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi79GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Golden Estates Homeowners Association PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi400GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Grass Land Estates PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi228GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Bridge Creek Estates Subdivision PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi205GROUNDWATERIn compliance
Broadwater Estates Hoa PrivateEast Helena0.0 mi40GROUNDWATERUNRESOLVED

Methodology: served-city centroid (TIGER 2020) is used as the PWS coordinate. Source-water classification from SDWIS primary_source_code; only groundwater and mixed-source systems are queried. Click any system above for its full SDWIS profile.

Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics

Who Lives Near This Site

Within 1 mile of this site (1 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 701. Why we surface this →

POPULATION SHARE
52.6%

Low-income

POPULATION SHARE
6.0%

People of color

POPULATION SHARE
2.3%

Under age 5

POPULATION SHARE
38.2%

Over age 64

Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 1-mile buffer around this site (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). NPL site proximity contributes to the national EJ pattern; indicator-level percentile and disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page.

Source. EPA Superfund Enterprise Management System (SEMS) · retrieved 2026-05-07. SEMS is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.

What this is not. We report EPA's published Superfund record — site listing, status, and contaminants of concern as named in EPA's decision documents. We do not perform site visits, independent air or water sampling, or current-state health-risk assessment. NPL listing reflects EPA's Hazard Ranking Score at a point in time; it does not by itself describe present-day exposure.