Community Water System · PWS MT0000150
Big Sandy Town Of
Operator location Big Sandy, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 608 people served; 58 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 608
- People served (this PWS)
- 58
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Big Sandy Town Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
608 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #25,993 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Big Sandy Town Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (58), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (608; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #25,993 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #217 of 283
- Population · MT
- 58
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- 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
- 372
- County
- Chouteau
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 50
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 28 | 2011 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 9 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2017 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 5 | 2017 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2024 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 1997 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Big Sandy Town Of has 58 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 39% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 58), and it ranks #25,993 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)
58 Around the middle fewer violations than 39% 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 Big Sandy Town Of
EPA SDWIS lists 608 people served and 372 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
58 violations · 608 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Big Sandy Town Of
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Montana compares on the same EPA violation measures. Montana 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.