Community Water System · PWS MT0004348
Dry Prairie Rural Water Authority
Operator location Culbertson, Montana - 53% of 49 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,005 served per SDWIS.
- 3,005
- People served (this PWS)
- 49
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 26
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Dry Prairie Rural Water Authority standing, mid SDWIS violation third
53% of 49 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 53% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,577 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Dry Prairie Rural Water Authority lands in the middle third by violation volume (49), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 3,005 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 53% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,577 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #45 of 283
- Population · MT
- 49
- Total EPA violations on record
- 53%
- 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
- Public/Private
- Connections
- 1,911
- County
- Roosevelt
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 26
- Monitoring Violations
- 23
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 16 | 2015 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 10 | 2015 |
| TTHM | MR | 9 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 9 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Dry Prairie Rural Water Authority has 49 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 53% of this system's own violations are health-based (26 of 49), and it ranks #10,577 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)
49 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Dry Prairie Rural Water Authority
26 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MT0004348.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
49 violations · 3,005 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Dry Prairie Rural Water Authority
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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