Community Water System · PWS MT0000014
Basin County Water and Sewer Dist
Operator location Basin, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 200 people served; 754 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 200
- People served (this PWS)
- 754
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 34
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Basin County Water and Sewer Dist standing, high SDWIS violation third
200 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Basin County Water and Sewer Dist sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (754), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (200; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 754
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 200
- 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
- Public/Private
- Connections
- 105
- County
- Jefferson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 24
- Monitoring Violations
- 703
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 10
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 131 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 69 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 24 | 2009 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 21 | 2021 |
| Cadmium | MR | 11 | 2002 |
| Chromium | MR | 11 | 2002 |
| Nickel | MR | 11 | 2002 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 11 | 2002 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 11 | 2002 |
| Selenium | MR | 11 | 2002 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 11 | 2002 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 11 | 2023 |
| Mercury | MR | 11 | 2002 |
| Barium | MR | 11 | 2002 |
| Arsenic | MR | 11 | 2002 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 10 | 2021 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| Benzene | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| Toluene | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| Styrene | MR | 7 | 2008 |
| Endrin | MR | 7 | 2008 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Basin County Water and Sewer Dist has 754 recorded EPA violations, 98% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 2% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (34 of 754), 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)
754 Higher than most more violations than 98% 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 Basin County Water and Sewer Dist
EPA SDWIS lists 200 people served and 105 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
754 violations · 200 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.
What to do with Basin County Water and Sewer Dist
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