Community Water System · PWS MT0000232
Gore Hill County Water Dist
Operator location Great Falls, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 500 people served; 332 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 500
- People served (this PWS)
- 332
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 73
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Gore Hill County Water Dist standing, high SDWIS violation third
500 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #29,254 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Gore Hill County Water Dist sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (332), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (500; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #29,254 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #267 of 283
- Population · MT
- 332
- Total EPA violations on record
- 22%
- 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
- 230
- County
- Cascade
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 73
- Monitoring Violations
- 249
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 73 | 2011 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 22 | 2024 |
| Arsenic | MR | 17 | 2008 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2008 |
| Endrin | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Atrazine | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| LASSO | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Chlordane | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Dalapon | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Simazine | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Picloram | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 3 | 2006 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Gore Hill County Water Dist has 332 recorded EPA violations, 92% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 8% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (73 of 332), and it ranks #29,254 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)
332 Higher than most more violations than 92% 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 Gore Hill County Water Dist
EPA SDWIS lists 500 people served and 230 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
332 violations · 500 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 Gore Hill County Water Dist
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