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Chouteau County, Montana

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MT015 · Chouteau County 12 sys · 3,111 viol · #2947/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 5.5% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2947/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 75%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Chouteau County ranks #2,947 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #37 of 56 counties in Montana. See methodology · corpus placement.

Chouteau 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 5.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Chouteau County . Population served ranks #2,947 of 3,254 · #37 of 56 in Montana.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Chouteau County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Powder River · lowest Chouteau · this county Phillips · near Petroleum · highest 66.7% 91.3% 91.7% 91.7% 91.7% 91.8% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Chouteau County

Cross-state counties nearest Chouteau County on flagged-system share (91.7%) and cumulative violation count (3,111). 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.

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Similar violation load

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

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

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