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Cascade County, Montana

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MT013 · Cascade County 98 sys · 15,613 viol · #593/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.8% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 6.6% health
  • RANK-TOP #593/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.2 pp
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 52%
  • SYS-MID 98 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Pondera County ( -0.2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Cascade County ranks #593 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #5 of 56 counties in Montana. See methodology · corpus placement.

Cascade County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 91.8% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 6.6% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #593 of 3,254 · #5 of 56 in Montana.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Cascade County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Powder River · lowest Chouteau · near Cascade · this county Petroleum · highest 66.7% 91.7% 91.7% 91.7% 91.8% 92.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Great Falls City Of 60,000 26 Clean
Malmstrom Air Force Base 8,850 82 Detected
Source Giant Springs Inc 3,007 18 -
Montana Expo Park Cascade County 2,510 25 -
Sun Prairie Village County 1,800 581 Clean
University of Providence 1,472 37 -
Black Eagle Cascade County Water Sewer 1,233 31 -
Giant Springs State Park 1,011 27 -
Prairie Water Company 1,000 91 -
Culligan Water Conditioning Great Falls 900 22 Clean
Town Pump Gore Hill 760 145 -
Cascade Town Of 650 18 -
Belt Town Of 600 169 -
Countryside Village MHP Grt Fls 600 4 -
Vaughn Cascade County Water and Sewer 585 57 -
Two Buttes Water Users Assn 525 119 -
Missouri River Bar and Grill 512 162 -
Armington Jct Belt Rest Stop 510 62 -
Gore Hill County Water Dist 500 332 -
Homestead Acres County Water and Sewer 500 55 -
Bushard Water Company 425 18 -
Mountain View Co-Op Ulm 421 56 -
Highwood Mobile Home Park 400 32 -
Sun Prairie Water District 350 94 -
Mt Air Natl Guard 120th Air Lift Wing 350 0 -
Frontier Inn 300 17 -
Centerville School 292 140 -
Great Falls KOA Kampground 287 564 -
Great Falls RV Park 274 0 -
Ryan Dam Water System 230 189 -
Neihart Town Of 229 376 -
Headquarters Building Region 4 220 18 -
Stockett Water and Sewer Dist 210 338 -
South Wind Water and Sewer District 200 356 -
Tracy Water Users Corp 200 439 -
Lds Church Sun River 200 68 -
Sand Coulee Water Users District 180 1,072 -
Simms High School 180 901 -
Grandview Trailer Court 165 4 -
Heritage Baptist Church 151 109 -
Big Stone Colony Inc 130 8 -
Pleasant Park Community Inc 125 1,791 -
Beef N Bone Steakhouse 123 33 -
Pleasant Valley Colony 120 25 -
Cascade Colony 105 16 -
Fairhaven Colony 105 47 -
First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park 105 20 -
Tri Hil Wua Gore Hill 100 870 -
Big Bend Ranch Subdivision 100 529 -
Shade Tree Mobile Park 100 7 -

Compare beyond Montana

Lower-flagged peers for Cascade County

Cross-state counties nearest Cascade County on flagged-system share (91.8%) and cumulative violation count (15,613). 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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