Community Water System · PWS MT0003176
Headquarters Apgar
Operator location West Glacier, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 500 people served; 11 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 500
- People served (this PWS)
- 11
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Headquarters Apgar standing, low SDWIS violation third
500 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%). Population rank #29,266 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Headquarters Apgar is in the lower third by violation count (11; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is smaller (500; 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.
- #29,266 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #279 of 283
- Population · MT
- 11
- Total EPA violations on record
- 9%
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- Federal
- Connections
- 135
- County
- Flathead
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 10
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2017 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 1 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Headquarters Apgar has 11 recorded EPA violations, 19% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 79% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 11), and it ranks #29,266 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)
11 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 79% 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 Headquarters Apgar
EPA SDWIS lists 500 people served and 135 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
11 violations · 500 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
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 Headquarters Apgar
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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