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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0004359

Montana City Mercantile Hardware Cafe

Operator location Clancy, Montana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 56 people served; 58 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

56
People served (this PWS)
58
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Montana City Mercantile Hardware Cafe standing, mid SDWIS violation third

56 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Montana City Mercantile Hardware Cafe lands in the middle third by violation volume (58), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (56; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

58
Total EPA violations on record
12%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
56
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
1
County
Jefferson
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
5
Monitoring Violations
51
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 36 2025
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 2010
Coliform (TCR) MCL 5 2005
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 4 2012
E. COLI MR 2 2025
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 2 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Montana City Mercantile Hardware Cafe has 58 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 39% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 58), 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)

58 Around the middle fewer violations than 39% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Montana City Mercantile Hardware Cafe

EPA SDWIS lists 56 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

58 violations · 56 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.

4 peers

What to do with Montana City Mercantile Hardware Cafe

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