Community Water System · PWS MT0000632
Elk Meadows Ranchettes
Operator location Huson, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 175 people served; 174 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 175
- People served (this PWS)
- 174
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 18
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Elk Meadows Ranchettes standing, high SDWIS violation third
175 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Elk Meadows Ranchettes sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (174), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (175; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 174
- Total EPA violations on record
- 10%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 175
- 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
- 66
- County
- Missoula
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 12
- Monitoring Violations
- 146
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 6
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 84 | 2013 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 30 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 12 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2011 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 6 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 4 | 2016 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2017 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2016 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 2 | 2008 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Elk Meadows Ranchettes has 174 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (18 of 174), 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)
174 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 Elk Meadows Ranchettes
EPA SDWIS lists 175 people served and 66 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
174 violations · 175 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.
What to do with Elk Meadows Ranchettes
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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