Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0002565
Lewis and Clark Caverns Visitor Center
Operator location Whitehall, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 615 people served; 42 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 615
- People served (this PWS)
- 42
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lewis and Clark Caverns Visitor Center standing, mid SDWIS violation third
615 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #25,863 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Lewis and Clark Caverns Visitor Center lands in the middle third by violation volume (42), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (615; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #25,863 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #215 of 283
- Population · MT
- 42
- Total EPA violations on record
- 21%
- 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
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- State
- Connections
- 11
- County
- Jefferson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 33
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 17 | 2008 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 11 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 5 | 2003 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 4 | 2019 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1981 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lewis and Clark Caverns Visitor Center has 42 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 48% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 42), and it ranks #25,863 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)
42 Around the middle fewer violations than 48% 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 Lewis and Clark Caverns Visitor Center
EPA SDWIS lists 615 people served and 11 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
42 violations · 615 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Lewis and Clark Caverns Visitor Center
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