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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MT0042403

Big Arm Flathead Lake Mt St Pk

Operator location Kalispell, Montana - 49% of 61 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 75 served per SDWIS.

75
People served (this PWS)
61
EPA violations (this PWS)
30
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Big Arm Flathead Lake Mt St Pk standing, mid SDWIS violation third

49% of 61 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 49% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Big Arm Flathead Lake Mt St Pk lands in the middle third by violation volume (61), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (75; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 49% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

61
Total EPA violations on record
49%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
75
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
State
Connections
20
County
Lake
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
21
Monitoring Violations
31
Treatment Tech Violations
9

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Groundwater Rule MR 27 2018
Coliform (TCR) MCL 21 2011
Groundwater Rule TT 9 2018
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 1996

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Big Arm Flathead Lake Mt St Pk has 61 recorded EPA violations, 62% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 38% carry more. 49% of this system's own violations are health-based (30 of 61), 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)

61 Around the middle fewer violations than 38% 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 Big Arm Flathead Lake Mt St Pk

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 MT0042403.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

61 violations · 75 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 Big Arm Flathead Lake Mt St Pk

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