Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0003700
Wheat Montana Bakery
Operator location Three Forks, Montana - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 104 EPA violations; groundwater source; 2,453 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,453
- People served (this PWS)
- 104
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 20
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Wheat Montana Bakery standing, high SDWIS violation third
104 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 19% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #12,102 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Wheat Montana Bakery sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (104), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,453 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 19% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,102 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #56 of 283
- Population · MT
- 104
- Total EPA violations on record
- 19%
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Broadwater
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 20
- Monitoring Violations
- 84
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 37 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 32 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 20 | 2010 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2025 |
| Asbestos | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Wheat Montana Bakery has 104 recorded EPA violations, 74% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 26% carry more. 19% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 104), and it ranks #12,102 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)
104 Around the middle fewer violations than 26% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Wheat Montana Bakery
104 violations on record for MT0003700; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
104 violations · 2,453 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Wheat Montana Bakery
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