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Community Water System · PWS MT0000347

Water Service Inc Trout Creek

Operator location Trout Creek, Montana - 40% of 25 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 350 served per SDWIS.

350
People served (this PWS)
25
EPA violations (this PWS)
10
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Water Service Inc Trout Creek standing, mid SDWIS violation third

40% of 25 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 40% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Water Service Inc Trout Creek lands in the middle third by violation volume (25), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (350; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 40% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

25
Total EPA violations on record
40%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
350
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
Private
Connections
103
County
Sanders
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
10
Monitoring Violations
13
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 10 2012
Asbestos MR 6 2020
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2010
E. COLI MR 3 2013

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Water Service Inc Trout Creek has 25 recorded EPA violations, 37% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 62% carry more. 40% of this system's own violations are health-based (10 of 25), 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)

25 Lower than most fewer violations than 62% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Water Service Inc Trout Creek

10 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0000347.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

25 violations · 350 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Water Service Inc Trout Creek

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.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater