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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0002940

Big Bull Bar and Grill

Operator location East Helena, Montana - 0% of 244 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 78 served per SDWIS.

78
People served (this PWS)
244
EPA violations (this PWS)
1
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Big Bull Bar and Grill standing, high SDWIS violation third

0% of 244 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%).

The verdict

Big Bull Bar and Grill sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (244), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (78; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

244
Total EPA violations on record
0%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
78
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
Broadwater
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
1
Monitoring Violations
242
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 228 2012
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 8 2003
Nitrate MR 6 1999
Coliform (TCR) MCL 1 1995

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Big Bull Bar and Grill has 244 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 244), 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)

244 Higher than most more violations than 88% 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 Big Bull Bar and Grill

1 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0002940.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

244 violations · 78 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 Big Bull Bar and Grill

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
  • Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems

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