Community Water System · PWS ID7300042
Salmon City Of
Operator location Salmon, Idaho - 40% of 129 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,158 served per SDWIS.
- 3,158
- People served (this PWS)
- 129
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 52
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Salmon City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
40% of 129 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 40% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,252 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Salmon City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (129), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,158 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 40% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,252 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #61 of 249
- Population · ID
- 129
- Total EPA violations on record
- 40%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
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
- 1,620
- County
- Lemhi
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 44
- Monitoring Violations
- 76
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 8
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 32 | 2025 |
| E. COLI | MR | 16 | 2019 |
| TTHM | MCL | 12 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 8 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2011 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 8 | 2019 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Chlorine | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 1979 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Salmon City Of has 129 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 40% of this system's own violations are health-based (52 of 129), and it ranks #10,252 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
129 Higher than most more violations than 78% 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 Salmon City Of
52 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ID7300042.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
129 violations · 3,158 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Salmon City Of
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