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Pennington County, South Dakota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SD103 · Pennington County 157 sys · 11,864 viol · #443/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 16.0% health
  • RANK-TOP #443/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 97%
  • SYS-LARGE 157 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Brookings County ( -0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Pennington County ranks #443 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #2 of 65 counties in South Dakota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Pennington 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 16.0% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #443 of 3,254 · #2 of 65 in South Dakota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Pennington County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Pennington 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
Rapid City 72,009 14 Detected
Box Elder 14,000 330 Clean
Rapid Valley Sanitary District 11,408 15 Detected
Ellsworth Afb 9,100 17 Clean
Nps-Mount Rushmore National Memorial 4,100 68 Detected
Colonial Pine Hills Sanitary Distric 1,200 80 -
Chapel Lane Water Company 1,200 8 -
Wr/Lj - Creighton Project 1,170 0 -
Reptile Gardens Inc 1,169 12 -
Bear Country USA 1,021 176 -
Country Store at Three Forks 1,000 12 -
Addie Camp Water and Septic 900 2 -
Hill City 872 251 -
Palmer Gulch Lodge/Mt Rushmore KOA 850 9 -
Powder House Lodge 700 13 -
Wall 699 80 Clean
New Underwood 679 144 -
Cosmos Mystery Area 600 55 -
Usfs-Bhnf Pactola Visitor Center 535 45 -
Dinosaur Museum 500 55 -
Pactola Pines Store 500 57 -
Hisega Meadows Water Inc 491 11 -
Rapid City South RV Park 440 28 -
Hart Ranch 438 237 -
Pine Grove 425 32 -
South Canyon Country Estates 420 30 -
The Ranch at Black Gap 375 2 -
Rafter-J Bar Ranch 374 0 -
Prairie Acres LLC 350 138 -
Keystone 349 50 -
Mountain Meadow Resort 330 30 -
Valley Heights Estates Inc 320 11 -
Rush Mountain Adventure Park 300 22 -
The Gaslight 300 53 -
Rushmore Mountain Coaster 300 3 -
Prairie Acres North 288 234 -
Carriage Hills 267 10 -
Happy Holiday RV Resort 264 271 -
Sunset Ranch 263 90 -
YMCA Giraffic Park 250 34 -
Medicine Mountain Scout Camp 250 36 -
Rapid City RV Park and Cg 236 95 -
Sunnyside Mobile Home Park II 235 72 -
Creekside LLC 235 23 -
Plainsview Mobile Manor 210 288 -
Blue Wing Recreation Area 200 3 -
Chapel in the Hills 200 7 -
Rushmore Tramway Adventures 200 18 -
Pine Cliff Estates 180 108 -
Htr Black Hills Resorts 180 47 -

Compare beyond South Dakota

Lower-flagged peers for Pennington County

Cross-state counties nearest Pennington County on flagged-system share (91.7%) and cumulative violation count (11,864). 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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