Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0003140
Buffalo Lodge Bar
Operator location Dillon, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 30 people served; 56 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 30
- People served (this PWS)
- 56
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Buffalo Lodge Bar standing, mid SDWIS violation third
30 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 9% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Buffalo Lodge Bar lands in the middle third by violation volume (56), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (30; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 9% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 56
- Total EPA violations on record
- 9%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 30
- 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
- 1
- County
- Beaverhead
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 51
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 21 | 2011 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 21 | 2012 |
| Nitrate | MR | 6 | 1997 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MCL | 5 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Buffalo Lodge Bar has 56 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 56), 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)
56 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% 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 Buffalo Lodge Bar
EPA SDWIS lists 30 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
56 violations · 30 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.
What to do with Buffalo Lodge 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
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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