Transient Non-Community · PWSID MT0062711

Rexford Bench Campground

Serves 50 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: FederalEureka, Montana
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1996: 10 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 6 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-11-01.

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

1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 70% 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

1996 · Missed or late test: 120002005201020152020 · Treatment lapse: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
10% over the limit · 120% treatment lapse · 260% missed or late test · 610% notice or report · 1

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2025-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-09-12E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2023-11-17Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-09-27E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  8. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2020-10-27Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  10. 1996-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections8
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityEureka
EPA ZIP on file59917

Areas served

  • Eureka, Lincoln County

Reading this record

Rexford Bench Campground is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 50 people in Eureka, 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.