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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0002077

Craig Bar

Operator location Craig, Montana - 26% of 354 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 108 served per SDWIS.

108
People served (this PWS)
354
EPA violations (this PWS)
93
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Craig Bar standing, high SDWIS violation third

26% of 354 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 26% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Craig Bar sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (354), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (108; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 26% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

354
Total EPA violations on record
26%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
108
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
2
County
Lewis and Clark
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
87
Monitoring Violations
254
Treatment Tech Violations
6

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 130 2010
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 92 2021
Coliform (TCR) MCL 77 2010
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 21 2023
Nitrate-Nitrite MCL 10 2012
E. COLI MR 9 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 6 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule Other 3 2016
Nitrate MR 2 1998

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Craig Bar has 354 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 26% of this system's own violations are health-based (93 of 354), 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)

354 Higher than most more violations than 93% 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 Craig Bar

93 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0002077.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

354 violations · 108 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 Craig Bar

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