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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0003164

New Life Church

Operator location Billings, Montana - 43% of 185 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 250 served per SDWIS.

250
People served (this PWS)
185
EPA violations (this PWS)
80
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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New Life Church standing, high SDWIS violation third

43% of 185 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 43% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

New Life Church sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (185), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (250; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 43% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

185
Total EPA violations on record
43%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
250
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
Yellowstone
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
69
Monitoring Violations
105
Treatment Tech Violations
11

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate-Nitrite MCL 52 2022
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 34 2021
Coliform (TCR) MR 28 2013
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 20 2023
Coliform (TCR) MCL 17 2004
E. COLI MR 11 2019
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 7 2019
Lead and Copper Rule MR 5 2004
Groundwater Rule TT 4 2014
Nitrate MR 1 1998
Fluoride MR 1 1996
Selenium MR 1 1996
Mercury MR 1 1996
Chromium MR 1 1996
Barium MR 1 1996
Cadmium MR 1 1996

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

New Life Church has 185 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 43% of this system's own violations are health-based (80 of 185), 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)

185 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 New Life Church

80 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0003164.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

185 violations · 250 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 New Life Church

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