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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0001468

Lincoln School District No 38

Operator location Lincoln, Montana - 60% of 43 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 300 served per SDWIS.

300
People served (this PWS)
43
EPA violations (this PWS)
26
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lincoln School District No 38 standing, mid SDWIS violation third

60% of 43 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 60% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Lincoln School District No 38 lands in the middle third by violation volume (43), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (300; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 60% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

43
Total EPA violations on record
60%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
300
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
Lewis and Clark
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
26
Monitoring Violations
17
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 26 2003
Coliform (TCR) MR 10 1996
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2004
Asbestos MR 3 2020
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 1 2006

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lincoln School District No 38 has 43 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 47% carry more. 60% of this system's own violations are health-based (26 of 43), 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)

43 Around the middle fewer violations than 47% 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 Lincoln School District No 38

26 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0001468.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

43 violations · 300 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Lincoln School District No 38

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