South Dakota
Custer County drinking water quality
51 active public water systems serve 13,526 people in Custer County. 38 are compliant, 13 had at least one EPA violation in the past three years, 1 is a designated serious violator, and 2 carry a health flag.
Needs attention
Community water systems
11 systems, largest first| System | Serves | Status | Rules violated, 3 yr | Unresolved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Custer Custer |
1,919 | 0 | 0 | |
|
Southern Black Hills Water Hot Springs |
947 | 0 | 0 | |
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Hermosa-Old System Hermosa, Hill City |
420 | 1 | 0 | |
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Spring Creek Acres Black Hawk, Hot Springs |
172 | 0 | 0 | |
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Buffalo Gap Buffalo Gap |
126 | 3 | 0 | |
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Hermosa Water Users Association Hermosa |
108 | 1 | 0 | |
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Heartland Country Ranchettes Black Hawk, Hermosa |
95 | 0 | 0 | |
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Rock Ridge Court Rapid City |
74 | 5 | 0 | |
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Fairburn Water Association Fairburn |
65 | 3 | 1 | |
|
North Hermosa Wud Hermosa |
40 | 3 | 2 | |
|
Paramount Point Hot Springs |
40 | 0 | 0 |
Non-community systems (40: schools, campgrounds, workplaces, restaurants)
These systems serve places people visit rather than homes.
Inactive systems (45, no longer operating or reporting)
Kept for the record and excluded from the county totals above. Browse inactive systems.
About this data
Totals cover active systems. Systems serving more than one county are counted in each county. EPA counts the rules a system was in violation of, not the individual violations; one rule can carry several.
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 South Dakota 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. Retrieved from ECHO on Oct 11, 2026.