Community Water System · PWS SD4600250
Pukwana
Operator location Chamberlain, South Dakota - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 267 people served; 77 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 267
- People served (this PWS)
- 77
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Pukwana standing, high SDWIS violation third
267 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%).
The verdict
Pukwana sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (77), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (267; 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.
- 77
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 267
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 120
- County
- Brule
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 48
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 39 | 2008 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 10 | 2008 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 2006 |
| Public Notice | Other | 6 | 2009 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 4 | 2013 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1976 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Pukwana has 77 recorded EPA violations, 67% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 32% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 77), 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)
77 Around the middle fewer violations than 32% 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 Pukwana
EPA SDWIS lists 267 people served and 120 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
77 violations · 267 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.
What to do with Pukwana
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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