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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS ID1280107

Kootenai High School Dist 274

Operator location Harrison, Idaho - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 255 people served; 42 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

255
People served (this PWS)
42
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Kootenai High School Dist 274 standing, mid SDWIS violation third

255 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Kootenai High School Dist 274 lands in the middle third by violation volume (42), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (255; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

42
Total EPA violations on record
10%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
255
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
5
County
Kootenai
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
37
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 7 2019
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 2009
Nitrate MR 4 2004
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2008
Cadmium MR 2 2002
Chromium MR 2 2002
Selenium MR 2 2002
Barium MR 2 2002
Mercury MR 2 2002
Nickel MR 1 2002
Beryllium, Total MR 1 2002
Thallium, Total MR 1 2002
Dalapon MR 1 1996
2,4,5-TP MR 1 1996
Picloram MR 1 1996
Dinoseb MR 1 1996
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate MR 1 1996
2,4-D MR 1 1996
Antimony, Total MR 1 2002

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Kootenai High School Dist 274 has 42 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 48% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 42), 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)

42 Around the middle fewer violations than 48% 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 Kootenai High School Dist 274

EPA SDWIS lists 255 people served and 5 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

42 violations · 255 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Kootenai High School Dist 274

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Idaho compares on the same EPA violation measures. Idaho systems
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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.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater