Pops Inn
Transient non-community system in Park City, Stillwater County, Montana, serving 50 people from ground water. 2 rules violated in the past three years. Privately owned.
Quarterly compliance history
2023
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2024
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2026
Rules violated in the past three years
Jul to Sep 2023 to Jul to Sep 2026
Revised Total Coliform Rule
Monitoring Violation
6 violations, Sep 2023 to Sep 2026
Revised Total Coliform Rule
Monitoring Violation6 violations, Sep 2023 to Sep 2026
Monitoring Violation: 6 violations, Sep 2023 to Sep 2026. The system did not complete required monitoring. This does not show that a contaminant was found.
What the rule requires: The 2013 RTCR (effective 2016) replaced the original TCR. It triggers automatic E. coli testing whenever total coliform is found. A single E. coli-positive sample is an acute MCL violation. It also requires systems exceeding 5% total coliform-positive samples to conduct a formal assessment and correct any deficiencies, helping prevent contamination before it escalates.
About this rule
Nitrate Rule
Maximum Contaminant Level ViolationMonitoring and Reporting
Health-based
7 violations, Oct 2023 to Jun 2026 · Nitrate-Nitrite (Combined) · 3 measured values
Nitrate Rule
Maximum Contaminant Level ViolationMonitoring and Reporting Health-based7 violations, Oct 2023 to Jun 2026 · Nitrate-Nitrite (Combined) · 3 measured values
Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, health-based: 3 violations, Jan 2024 to Nov 2025. A sample exceeded the maximum contaminant level EPA allows in drinking water.
Monitoring and Reporting: 4 violations, Oct 2023 to Jun 2026. The system did not complete required monitoring, or did not report the results on time. This does not show that a contaminant was found.
Limit 10 MG/L · Jul to Sep 2024
Limit 10 MG/L · Apr to Jun 2024
Limit 10 MG/L · Jan to Mar 2024
Contaminant on the record: Nitrate-Nitrite (Combined).
Nitrate-Nitrite (Combined), health effects: The combined limit protects against methemoglobinemia — the same risk as nitrate alone and nitrite alone. In infants under 6 months, gut bacteria convert these nitrogen compounds to forms that block oxygen transport in blood ('blue baby syndrome'). Pregnant women and individuals with certain enzyme deficiencies are also at elevated risk. Limit: 10 mg/L as nitrogen (NO₂-N + NO₃-N combined)
About this data
Rules violated and the list above come from EPA's SDWIS violation records, one row per violation and contaminant, grouped by the rule each row belongs to. A violation counts when its non-compliance period ended on or after Jul 1, 2023, the start of the thirteen quarters ECHO's three-year figures cover, or is still open; it is unresolved when it was still open at EPA's data refresh on Oct 7, 2026. EPA's rule code 500, "Not Regulated", is left out, as in ECHO's counts. Each rule's violation count is EPA's, and one rule can carry several: a missed monitoring round for a group of contaminants is one violation per contaminant and period. Category names are EPA's violation categories.
ECHO's own summary count of rules violated agrees with this grouping for 98.8% of active systems nationally, and its count of rules being violated for 98.7%; where they differ, the figures here follow the rows listed.
A measured value shown with a rule is the sample result EPA recorded with that violation (SDWIS viol_measure), against the limit EPA recorded on the same row (state_mcl), both in EPA's unit as written; violations without a recorded value, such as missed monitoring, show none. Other measured contaminant levels are not part of this record; each system publishes them in its annual Consumer Confidence Report.
The system's location is the centre of the first town EPA lists the system as serving, from Census Bureau place files.
Source: the U.S. EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online system (ECHO), which publishes the federal Safe Drinking Water Information System. EPA's terms and values are shown as published. The Montana records are from EPA's data refresh of Oct 7, 2026; EPA refreshes this data quarterly, and states report to EPA with a lag of three to six months, so the newest violations may not appear yet.