Community Water System · PWS 083090062
Birney Village
Operator location Lame Deer, EPA Region 8 — Tribal Water Systems - 33% of 51 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 96 served per SDWIS.
- 96
- People served (this PWS)
- 51
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 17
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Birney Village standing, mid SDWIS violation third
33% of 51 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 33% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Birney Village lands in the middle third by violation volume (51), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (96; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 33% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 51
- Total EPA violations on record
- 33%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 96
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Native American
- Connections
- 32
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 12
- Monitoring Violations
- 33
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 2014 |
| Chlorine | MR | 6 | 2022 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 4 | 2019 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 3 | 2019 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2022 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 2013 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 2 | 2013 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 1 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MCL | 1 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 2022 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 1 | 2013 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 1 | 2013 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 1 | 2021 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 1 | 2013 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 1 | 2019 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 1 | 2017 |
| E. COLI | MR | 1 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Birney Village has 51 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 33% of this system's own violations are health-based (17 of 51), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
51 Around the middle fewer violations than 43% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Birney Village
17 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for 083090062.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
51 violations · 96 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Birney Village
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in EPA Region 8 — Tribal Water Systems compares on the same EPA violation measures. EPA Region 8 — Tribal Water Systems systems
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.