Community Water System · PWS ID1090129
Sourdough Point
Operator location Sandpoint, Idaho - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 178 people served; 74 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 178
- People served (this PWS)
- 74
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sourdough Point standing, mid SDWIS violation third
178 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Sourdough Point lands in the middle third by violation volume (74), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (178; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 74
- Total EPA violations on record
- 11%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 178
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 78
- County
- Bonner
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 58
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 1997 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 3 | 2025 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sourdough Point has 74 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 33% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 74), 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)
74 Around the middle fewer violations than 33% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Sourdough Point
EPA SDWIS lists 178 people served and 78 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
74 violations · 178 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 Sourdough Point
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