Community Water System · PWS ID4200043
Sawtooth Estates Water Users
Operator location Mountain Home, Idaho - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 175 people served; 65 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 175
- People served (this PWS)
- 65
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 13
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sawtooth Estates Water Users standing, mid SDWIS violation third
175 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Sawtooth Estates Water Users lands in the middle third by violation volume (65), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (175; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 65
- Total EPA violations on record
- 20%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 175
- 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
- 48
- County
- Elmore
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 52
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 12
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 12 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2015 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2017 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2017 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Toluene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 1 | 1992 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sawtooth Estates Water Users has 65 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (13 of 65), 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)
65 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% 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 Sawtooth Estates Water Users
EPA SDWIS lists 175 people served and 48 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
65 violations · 175 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 Sawtooth Estates Water Users
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