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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0004089

Elder Grove School Building Five

Operator location Billings, Montana - 63% of 35 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 200 served per SDWIS.

200
People served (this PWS)
35
EPA violations (this PWS)
22
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Elder Grove School Building Five standing, mid SDWIS violation third

63% of 35 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 63% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Elder Grove School Building Five lands in the middle third by violation volume (35), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (200; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 63% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

35
Total EPA violations on record
63%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
200
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
1
County
Yellowstone
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
22
Monitoring Violations
13
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 22 2010
Lead and Copper Rule MR 6 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2000
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 3 2018

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Elder Grove School Building Five has 35 recorded EPA violations, 46% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 53% carry more. 63% of this system's own violations are health-based (22 of 35), 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)

35 Lower than most fewer violations than 53% 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 Elder Grove School Building Five

22 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0004089.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

35 violations · 200 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Elder Grove School Building Five

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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