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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0000771

Centerville School

Operator location Sand Coulee, Montana - 38% of 140 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 292 served per SDWIS.

292
People served (this PWS)
140
EPA violations (this PWS)
53
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Centerville School standing, high SDWIS violation third

38% of 140 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 38% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Centerville School sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (140), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (292; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 38% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

140
Total EPA violations on record
38%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
292
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
State
Connections
1
County
Cascade
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
34
Monitoring Violations
87
Treatment Tech Violations
19

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 34 2008
Groundwater Rule MR 22 2022
Groundwater Rule TT 19 2023
Lead and Copper Rule MR 14 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 8 1994
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 6 2014
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2017
Barium MR 3 2002
Chromium MR 3 2002
Fluoride MR 3 2002
Mercury MR 3 2002
Nickel MR 3 2002
Antimony, Total MR 3 2002
Selenium MR 3 2002
Chlorine MR 3 2012
Cadmium MR 3 2002
Thallium, Total MR 3 2002
Beryllium, Total MR 3 2002

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Centerville School has 140 recorded EPA violations, 80% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 20% carry more. 38% of this system's own violations are health-based (53 of 140), 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)

140 Higher than most more violations than 80% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Centerville School

53 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0000771.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

140 violations · 292 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.

4 peers

What to do with Centerville School

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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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