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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS ID3230074

Shadow Butte Elementary School

Operator location Emmett, Idaho - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 485 people served; 57 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

485
People served (this PWS)
57
EPA violations (this PWS)
9
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Shadow Butte Elementary School standing, mid SDWIS violation third

485 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Shadow Butte Elementary School lands in the middle third by violation volume (57), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (485; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

57
Total EPA violations on record
16%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
485
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
Private
Connections
1
County
Gem
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
3
Monitoring Violations
37
Treatment Tech Violations
6

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Chlorine MR 14 2023
Lead and Copper Rule MR 8 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 5 2020
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 5 2019
TTHM MR 5 2020
Public Notice Other 4 2025
Groundwater Rule Other 4 2015
Coliform (TCR) MCL 3 2009
Groundwater Rule TT 3 2010
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 3 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 3 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Shadow Butte Elementary School has 57 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 57), 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)

57 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% 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 Shadow Butte Elementary School

EPA SDWIS lists 485 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

57 violations · 485 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.

4 peers

What to do with Shadow Butte Elementary School

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
  • 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.

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