Community Water System · PWS MT0000247
Heron Community Water System
Operator location Heron, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 84 people served; 304 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 84
- People served (this PWS)
- 304
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 23
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Heron Community Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
84 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Heron Community Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (304), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (84; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 304
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 84
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 46
- County
- Sanders
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 23
- Monitoring Violations
- 281
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 38 | 2008 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 38 | 2008 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 23 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 19 | 1999 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 14 | 2020 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 9 | 2006 |
| Arsenic | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Dalapon | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Picloram | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| LASSO | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 3 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Heron Community Water System has 304 recorded EPA violations, 91% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 9% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (23 of 304), 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)
304 Higher than most more violations than 91% 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 Heron Community Water System
EPA SDWIS lists 84 people served and 46 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
304 violations · 84 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.
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