What's in ELK POINT's water?

ELK POINT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,124 people through 897 service connections.

ELK POINT's record against the rest of the country

ELK POINT has 42 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,511th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 42th percentile nationally.

How ELK POINT compares within SD

SD's 74 covered systems average 3.0 health-based violations each; ELK POINT carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for ELK POINT is from 2011-01-01 (health-based: 2005-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

ELK POINT's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:

• Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)

The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

This is what ELK POINT reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for ELK POINT - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.