Community Water System · PWS MT0000249
Hill County Water Districts
Operator location Hingham, Montana - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 380 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,720 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,720
- People served (this PWS)
- 380
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 75
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Hill County Water Districts standing, high SDWIS violation third
380 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #14,811 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Hill County Water Districts sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (380), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,720 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #14,811 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #89 of 283
- Population · MT
- 380
- Total EPA violations on record
- 20%
- 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
- 715
- County
- Hill
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 64
- Monitoring Violations
- 298
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 11
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 34 | 2015 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 29 | 2008 |
| Arsenic | MR | 21 | 2003 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 18 | 1995 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 18 | 2007 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 17 | 2007 |
| TTHM | MR | 17 | 2007 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 12 | 2006 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 12 | 2006 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 12 | 2006 |
| Mercury | MR | 12 | 2006 |
| Barium | MR | 12 | 2006 |
| Cadmium | MR | 12 | 2006 |
| Chromium | MR | 12 | 2006 |
| Selenium | MR | 12 | 2006 |
| Nickel | MR | 12 | 2006 |
| TTHM | MCL | 12 | 2007 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 11 | 2005 |
| Fluoride | MR | 9 | 2003 |
| Nitrate | MR | 6 | 1999 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2003 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 3 | 2000 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2000 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 3 | 2000 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2000 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2000 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2000 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 3 | 2000 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 3 | 2000 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2000 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Hill County Water Districts has 380 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (75 of 380), and it ranks #14,811 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)
380 Higher than most more violations than 93% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Hill County Water Districts
380 violations on record for MT0000249; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
380 violations · 1,720 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Hill County Water Districts
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