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Community Water System · PWS WY5600032

Lusk, Town Of

Operator location Lusk, Wyoming - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 156 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,576 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,576
People served (this PWS)
156
EPA violations (this PWS)
15
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lusk, Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

156 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,499 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Lusk, Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (156), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,576 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#15,499 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#59 of 147
Population · WY
156
Total EPA violations on record
10%
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
820
County
Niobrara
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
15
Monitoring Violations
135
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 11 2000
Coliform (TCR) MCL 8 1994
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MCL 7 2014
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 4 2021
Nitrate MR 4 1994
Benzene MR 3 2021
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 3 2021
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 3 2021
Trichloroethylene MR 3 2021
Vinyl chloride MR 3 2021
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 3 2021
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 3 2021
Ethylbenzene MR 3 2021
CHLOROBENZENE MR 3 2021
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 3 2021
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 3 2021
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 3 2021
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 3 2021
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2000
Carbon tetrachloride MR 3 2021
Tetrachloroethylene MR 3 2021
Styrene MR 3 2021
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 3 2021
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 3 2021
Toluene MR 3 2021
Xylenes, Total MR 3 2021
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 3 2021
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 3 2021
Arsenic MR 2 1982
Mercury MR 2 1982

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lusk, Town Of has 156 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 18% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (15 of 156), and it ranks #15,499 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)

156 Higher than most more violations than 82% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Lusk, Town Of

156 violations on record for WY5600032; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

156 violations · 1,576 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Lusk, Town Of

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Wyoming compares on the same EPA violation measures. Wyoming systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater