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Community Water System · PWS MT0002005

Ten Mile and Pleasant Valley Wua

Operator location Helena, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 750 people served; 460 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

750
People served (this PWS)
460
EPA violations (this PWS)
8
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Ten Mile and Pleasant Valley Wua standing, high SDWIS violation third

750 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #23,437 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Ten Mile and Pleasant Valley Wua sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (460), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (750; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#23,437 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#182 of 283
Population · MT
460
Total EPA violations on record
2%
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
Private
Connections
310
County
Lewis and Clark
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
5
Monitoring Violations
429
Treatment Tech Violations
3

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 39 2024
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 19 2023
Thallium, Total MR 9 2011
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 9 2021
Xylenes, Total MR 9 2021
Vinyl chloride MR 9 2021
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 9 2021
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 9 2021
Carbon tetrachloride MR 9 2021
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 9 2021
Trichloroethylene MR 9 2021
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 9 2021
Tetrachloroethylene MR 9 2021
Ethylbenzene MR 9 2021
Styrene MR 9 2021
E. COLI MR 9 2014
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 9 2021
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 9 2021
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 9 2021
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 9 2021
CHLOROBENZENE MR 9 2021
Benzene MR 9 2021
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 9 2021
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 9 2021
Toluene MR 9 2021
2,4,5-TP MR 8 2011
Arsenic MR 7 2011
Fluoride MR 6 2011
Mercury MR 6 2011
Dalapon MR 6 2011

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Ten Mile and Pleasant Valley Wua has 460 recorded EPA violations, 95% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 5% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 460), and it ranks #23,437 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)

460 Higher than most more violations than 95% 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 Ten Mile and Pleasant Valley Wua

EPA SDWIS lists 750 people served and 310 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

460 violations · 750 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Ten Mile and Pleasant Valley Wua

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