Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0001229
Lehrkinds Big Spring Water
Operator location Bozeman, Montana - 11% of 45 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 2,575 served per SDWIS.
- 2,575
- People served (this PWS)
- 45
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lehrkinds Big Spring Water standing, mid SDWIS violation third
11% of 45 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,674 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Lehrkinds Big Spring Water lands in the middle third by violation volume (45), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,575 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,674 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #50 of 283
- Population · MT
- 45
- Total EPA violations on record
- 11%
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Fergus
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 37
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bromate | MR | 24 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 5 | 2005 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1982 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lehrkinds Big Spring Water has 45 recorded EPA violations, 54% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 46% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 45), and it ranks #11,674 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)
45 Around the middle fewer violations than 46% 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 Lehrkinds Big Spring Water
5 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0001229.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
45 violations · 2,575 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Lehrkinds Big Spring Water
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