Community Water System · PWS MT0004107
Wye Area Water System
Operator location Missoula, Montana - 32% of 93 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 512 served per SDWIS.
- 512
- People served (this PWS)
- 93
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 30
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Wye Area Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
32% of 93 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 32% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #28,321 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Wye Area Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (93), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (512; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 32% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #28,321 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #254 of 283
- Population · MT
- 93
- Total EPA violations on record
- 32%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 183
- County
- Missoula
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 30
- Monitoring Violations
- 46
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 30 | 2013 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 17 | 2011 |
| E. COLI | MR | 17 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2012 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2024 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 3 | 2009 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Wye Area Water System has 93 recorded EPA violations, 72% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 28% carry more. 32% of this system's own violations are health-based (30 of 93), and it ranks #28,321 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)
93 Around the middle fewer violations than 28% 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 Wye Area Water System
30 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0004107.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
93 violations · 512 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 Wye Area Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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