Community Water System · PWS ID6120006
Howe Townsite
Operator location Howe, Idaho - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 55 people served; 52 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 55
- People served (this PWS)
- 52
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Howe Townsite standing, mid SDWIS violation third
55 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Howe Townsite lands in the middle third by violation volume (52), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (55; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 52
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 55
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 18
- County
- Butte
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 48
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 23 | 2003 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 1997 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2014 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2021 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Nickel | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2001 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Howe Townsite has 52 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 42% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 52), 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)
52 Around the middle fewer violations than 42% 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 Howe Townsite
EPA SDWIS lists 55 people served and 18 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
52 violations · 55 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 Howe Townsite
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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