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Community Water System · PWS MT0001740

St Ignatius Town Of

Operator location St Ignatius, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 700 people served; 168 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

700
People served (this PWS)
168
EPA violations (this PWS)
33
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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St Ignatius Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

700 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #24,363 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

St Ignatius Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (168), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (700; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#24,363 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#195 of 283
Population · MT
168
Total EPA violations on record
20%
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
Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
291
County
Lake
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
16
Monitoring Violations
129
Treatment Tech Violations
17

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Groundwater Rule TT 17 2016
Coliform (TCR) MCL 16 2010
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 2011
Lead and Copper Rule MR 8 2022
Groundwater Rule MR 7 2025
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 6 2012
TTHM MR 6 2019
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 6 2019
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 5 2016
Methoxychlor MR 3 2016
Toxaphene MR 3 2016
OXAMYL MR 3 2016
Simazine MR 3 2016
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate MR 3 2016
Picloram MR 3 2016
Dinoseb MR 3 2016
Aldicarb sulfone MR 3 2016
Carbofuran MR 3 2016
Aldicarb MR 3 2016
LASSO MR 3 2016
Heptachlor MR 3 2016
2,4-D MR 3 2016
2,4,5-TP MR 3 2016
HEXACHLOROBENZENE MR 3 2016
Pentachlorophenol MR 3 2016
Chlordane MR 3 2016
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 3 2016
E. COLI MR 3 2024
Heptachlor epoxide MR 3 2016
Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate MR 3 2016

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

St Ignatius Town Of has 168 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (33 of 168), and it ranks #24,363 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)

168 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 St Ignatius Town Of

EPA SDWIS lists 700 people served and 291 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

168 violations · 700 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

Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with St Ignatius Town Of

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