Community Water System · PWS MT0000385
Paradise Water District
Operator location Paradise, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 200 people served; 57 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 200
- People served (this PWS)
- 57
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Paradise Water District standing, mid SDWIS violation third
200 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 7% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Paradise Water District lands in the middle third by violation volume (57), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (200; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 7% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 57
- Total EPA violations on record
- 7%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 200
- 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
- 93
- County
- Sanders
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 47
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 18 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 2015 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2007 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2017 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2017 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1981 |
| Asbestos | MR | 1 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Paradise Water District has 57 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 7% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 57), 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)
57 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% 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 Paradise Water District
EPA SDWIS lists 200 people served and 93 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
57 violations · 200 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Paradise Water District
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
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