Community Water System · PWS SD4600159
Hill City
Operator location Hill City, South Dakota - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 872 people served; 251 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 872
- People served (this PWS)
- 251
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 12
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Hill City standing, high SDWIS violation third
872 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #21,514 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Hill City sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (251), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (872; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #21,514 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #118 of 171
- Population · SD
- 251
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- 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
- 525
- County
- Pennington
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 12
- Monitoring Violations
- 229
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| Benzene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| Toluene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| Styrene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 10 | 2003 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 9 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 1991 |
| Arsenic | MCL | 6 | 2018 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 2001 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 3 | 2001 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | Other | 3 | 1999 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1994 |
| Asbestos | MR | 2 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Hill City has 251 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 251), and it ranks #21,514 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)
251 Higher than most more violations than 88% 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 Hill City
EPA SDWIS lists 872 people served and 525 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
251 violations · 872 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Hill City
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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