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Musselshell County, Montana

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MT065 · Musselshell County 8 sys · 586 viol · #2993/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 75.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 1.9% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2993/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +8.3 pp
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 8 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Powder River County ( -8.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Musselshell County ranks #2,993 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #38 of 56 counties in Montana. See methodology · corpus placement.

Musselshell County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 75.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 1.9% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Musselshell County . Population served ranks #2,993 of 3,254 · #38 of 56 in Montana.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Musselshell County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Powder River · lowest Wheatland · near Glacier · near 66.7% 75% 87.5% 88.6% 88.9% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Musselshell County

Cross-state counties nearest Musselshell County on flagged-system share (75.0%) and cumulative violation count (586). 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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