Community Water System · PWS SD4602267
Shamrock Colony
Operator location Carpenter, South Dakota - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 75 people served; 231 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 75
- People served (this PWS)
- 231
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 33
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Shamrock Colony standing, high SDWIS violation third
75 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Shamrock Colony sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (231), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (75; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 231
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 75
- 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
- 17
- County
- Clark
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 31
- Monitoring Violations
- 188
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluoride | MCL | 31 | 2012 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 26 | 2025 |
| Fluoride | MR | 17 | 2012 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 12 | 2010 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 12 | 2010 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 12 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2012 |
| Public Notice | Other | 7 | 2011 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2025 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| Styrene | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| Benzene | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| Toluene | MR | 2 | 2009 |
| LASSO | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Atrazine | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Endrin | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Chlordane | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 2 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Shamrock Colony has 231 recorded EPA violations, 87% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 13% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (33 of 231), 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)
231 Higher than most more violations than 87% 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 Shamrock Colony
EPA SDWIS lists 75 people served and 17 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
231 violations · 75 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 Shamrock Colony
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