Community Water System · PWS SD4600082
Canton
Operator location Canton, South Dakota - 0% of 66 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 3,066 served per SDWIS.
- 3,066
- People served (this PWS)
- 66
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Canton standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 66 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #10,460 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Canton lands in the middle third by violation volume (66), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 3,066 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,460 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #48 of 171
- Population · SD
- 66
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 1,431
- County
- Lincoln
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 60
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1989 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1989 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1989 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1989 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Styrene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Benzene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Toluene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1989 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1989 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1989 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1976 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Canton has 66 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 66), and it ranks #10,460 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)
66 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% 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 Canton
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for SD4600082.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
66 violations · 3,066 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 Canton
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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