Transient Non-Community · PWSID MT0004836

E Bar L Ranch

Serves 84 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateGreenough, Montana
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On record since 2013: 19 violations. 1 over the limit · 14 treatment lapses · 2 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
14Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 85% of active water systems in Montana. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102013 · Over the limit: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 82024 · Treatment lapse: 82024 · Treatment lapse: 82024 · Treatment lapse: 82024 · Treatment lapse: 82024 · Treatment lapse: 82024 · Treatment lapse: 82024 · Treatment lapse: 82024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 42025 · Treatment lapse: 42025 · Treatment lapse: 42025 · Treatment lapse: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 174% treatment lapse · 1411% missed or late test · 211% notice or report · 2

Across Montana, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-03-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-02-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-12-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-11-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-10-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-09-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2024-08-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2024-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2024-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-06-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  15. 2020-06-02Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  16. 2018-06-02Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  17. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2016-06-07Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  19. 2013-06-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served84
Service connections32
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityGreenough
EPA ZIP on file59823

Areas served

  • Greenough, Missoula County

Reading this record

E Bar L Ranch is a transient non-community that draws from surface water and serves about 84 people in Greenough, Montana. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.