Community Water System · PWS MT0000138
Belt Town Of
Operator location Belt, Montana - 38% of 169 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 600 served per SDWIS.
- 600
- People served (this PWS)
- 169
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 65
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Belt Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
38% of 169 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 38% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #26,363 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Belt Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (169), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (600; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 38% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,363 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #219 of 283
- Population · MT
- 169
- Total EPA violations on record
- 38%
- 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
- 330
- County
- Cascade
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 65
- Monitoring Violations
- 80
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 66 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 65 | 2008 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 24 | 2020 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 6 | 2024 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| E. COLI | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Belt Town Of has 169 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 38% of this system's own violations are health-based (65 of 169), and it ranks #26,363 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)
169 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 Belt Town Of
65 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0000138.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
169 violations · 600 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Belt Town Of
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