Lander, City Of

Water Quality Snapshot: Lander, City Of

Lander, City Of is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 7,615 residents in Lander, Wyoming (Fremont County) through 4,297 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 68 total violations for this system , of which 2 (3%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 64 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2023.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Surface Water Treatment Rule, recorded in 6 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Wyoming, EPA tracks 766 public water systems serving 639,288 people, with 32,465 cumulative violations and 4,023 health-based violations on record. About 95% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 42.4 violations. Statewide, 18 of 33 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (54.5%).

Lander, City Of's 68 violations sit above the Wyoming average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.