Community Water System · PWS MT0000251
Hot Springs Municipal Water
Operator location Hot Springs, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 600 people served; 118 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 600
- People served (this PWS)
- 118
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 7
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Hot Springs Municipal Water standing, high SDWIS violation third
600 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #26,364 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Hot Springs Municipal Water sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (118), 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 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,364 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #220 of 283
- Population · MT
- 118
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- 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
- 408
- County
- Sanders
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 106
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 15 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 2005 |
| Dalapon | MR | 6 | 2005 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 6 | 2005 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 6 | 2005 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 6 | 2005 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 6 | 2005 |
| Picloram | MR | 6 | 2005 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 5 | 2025 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Fluoride | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 3 | 2023 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 2023 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1994 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1981 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Hot Springs Municipal Water has 118 recorded EPA violations, 76% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 23% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 118), and it ranks #26,364 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)
118 Higher than most more violations than 76% 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 Hot Springs Municipal Water
EPA SDWIS lists 600 people served and 408 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
118 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 Hot Springs Municipal Water
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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