Community Water System · PWS 084690483
Wolf Creek Water System
Operator location Pine Ridge, EPA Region 8 — Tribal Water Systems - 27% of 86 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 65 served per SDWIS.
- 65
- People served (this PWS)
- 86
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 23
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Wolf Creek Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
27% of 86 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 27% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Wolf Creek Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (86), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (65; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 27% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 86
- Total EPA violations on record
- 27%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 65
- 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
- 13
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 22
- Monitoring Violations
- 51
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 22 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 22 | 2000 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2010 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1994 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 1 | 2019 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 1 | 2025 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 1 | 2017 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1983 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1983 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1983 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1983 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1983 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1983 |
| Asbestos | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1983 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Wolf Creek Water System has 86 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 30% carry more. 27% of this system's own violations are health-based (23 of 86), 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)
86 Around the middle fewer violations than 30% 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 Wolf Creek Water System
23 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for 084690483.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
86 violations · 65 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Wolf Creek Water System
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.