Community Water System · PWS MT0003881
South Forestvale HOA
Operator location Helena, Montana - 36% of 66 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 82 served per SDWIS.
- 82
- People served (this PWS)
- 66
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 24
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
South Forestvale HOA standing, mid SDWIS violation third
36% of 66 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 36% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
South Forestvale HOA lands in the middle third by violation volume (66), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (82; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 36% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 66
- Total EPA violations on record
- 36%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 82
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 34
- County
- Lewis and Clark
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 24
- Monitoring Violations
- 33
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 24 | 2016 |
| E. COLI | MR | 14 | 2019 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 9 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2016 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2020 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
South Forestvale HOA has 66 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 36% of this system's own violations are health-based (24 of 66), 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)
66 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% 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 South Forestvale HOA
24 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0003881.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
66 violations · 82 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 South Forestvale HOA
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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