Community Water System · PWS SD4600315
Lantern Estates
Operator location Spearfish, South Dakota - 0% of 248 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 192 served per SDWIS.
- 192
- People served (this PWS)
- 248
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lantern Estates standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 248 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%).
The verdict
Lantern Estates sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (248), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (192; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. 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.
- 248
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 192
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 78
- County
- Lawrence
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 223
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 56 | 2008 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 16 | 2000 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 14 | 2007 |
| Nitrate | MR | 11 | 2008 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 4 | 2001 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| Public Notice | Other | 3 | 2009 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Endrin | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Chlordane | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Simazine | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Picloram | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 2 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lantern Estates has 248 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 248), 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)
248 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
Health-based violations on Lantern Estates
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 SD4600315.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
248 violations · 192 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 Lantern Estates
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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