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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS ID7190069

Living Waters Ranch

Operator location Challis, Idaho - 37% of 41 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 40 served per SDWIS.

40
People served (this PWS)
41
EPA violations (this PWS)
15
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Living Waters Ranch standing, mid SDWIS violation third

37% of 41 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 37% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Living Waters Ranch lands in the middle third by violation volume (41), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (40; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 37% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

41
Total EPA violations on record
37%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
40
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
18
County
Custer
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
12
Monitoring Violations
22
Treatment Tech Violations
3

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 12 2014
Coliform (TCR) MR 11 2013
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 5 2025
Public Notice Other 4 2017
Nitrate MR 3 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 3 2017
E. COLI MR 3 2017

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Living Waters Ranch has 41 recorded EPA violations, 51% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 48% carry more. 37% of this system's own violations are health-based (15 of 41), 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)

41 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

Health-based violations on Living Waters Ranch

15 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ID7190069.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

41 violations · 40 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 Living Waters Ranch

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