Community Water System · PWS SD4600101
Custer
Operator location Custer, South Dakota - 0% of 112 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 1,919 served per SDWIS.
- 1,919
- People served (this PWS)
- 112
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Custer standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 112 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 #13,961 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Custer sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (112), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,919 (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.
- #13,961 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #70 of 171
- Population · SD
- 112
- 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
- 1,200
- County
- Custer
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 110
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 1998 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Endrin | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Dalapon | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Endothall | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Diquat | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 1988 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 3 | 1988 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Simazine | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| LASSO | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Picloram | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 3 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Custer has 112 recorded EPA violations, 75% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 24% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 112), and it ranks #13,961 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)
112 Higher than most more violations than 75% 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 Custer
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 SD4600101.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
112 violations · 1,919 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Custer
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