Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0003306
Bears Country Store
Operator location Libby, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 805 people served; 186 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 805
- People served (this PWS)
- 186
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 12
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bears Country Store standing, high SDWIS violation third
805 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #22,324 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bears Country Store sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (186), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (805; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #22,324 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #164 of 283
- Population · MT
- 186
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 2
- County
- Lincoln
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 12
- Monitoring Violations
- 174
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 107 | 2016 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 37 | 2024 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 19 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 12 | 2006 |
| E. COLI | MR | 7 | 2019 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 1999 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bears Country Store has 186 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 186), and it ranks #22,324 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)
186 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
Population served record for Bears Country Store
EPA SDWIS lists 805 people served and 2 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
186 violations · 805 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bears Country Store
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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