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Butte County, South Dakota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SD019 · Butte County 12 sys · 1,678 viol · #2407/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 21.2% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2407/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Brookings County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Butte County ranks #2,407 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #21 of 65 counties in South Dakota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Butte County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 91.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 21.2% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,407 of 3,254 · #21 of 65 in South Dakota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Butte County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Butte County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Shannon · lowest Brookings · near Fall River · near Buffalo · highest 50% 91.7% 91.7% 91.7% 92.9% 93.3% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Belle Fourche 5,617 282 Clean
Butte-Meade Swd-Bean Well 1,481 100 -
Newell 583 57 -
Rimrock Water Company LLC 365 20 -
Butte-Meade Swd-Vale Well 357 0 -
Hay Creek Water Company 323 49 -
Nisland 206 539 -
Black Hills Water Distribution, LLC 135 234 -
Vale Sanitary District 120 104 -
Fruitdale 75 118 -
Riverside Mobile Home Court 75 168 -
Red Water Distribution LLC 35 7 -

Compare beyond South Dakota

Lower-flagged peers for Butte County

Cross-state counties nearest Butte County on flagged-system share (91.7%) and cumulative violation count (1,678). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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