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Big Stone County, Minnesota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MN011 · Big Stone County 17 sys · 304 viol · #2885/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 76.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 43.4% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2885/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.3 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 17 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Norman County ( -0.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Big Stone County ranks #2,885 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #83 of 87 counties in Minnesota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Big Stone County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 76.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 43.4% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,885 of 3,254 · #83 of 87 in Minnesota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Big Stone County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Big Stone County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahnomen · lowest Norman · near Lincoln · near Watonwan · highest 22.2% 75% 76.2% 76.5% 77.8% 78.3% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Ortonville 2,021 38 Clean
Graceville 543 6 -
Clinton 395 28 -
Beardsley 216 28 -
Lismore Colony 125 15 -
Big Stone Hutterite 110 11 -
Lakeshore RV Park 100 0 -
Big Stone Camp For Christ 100 7 -
Odessa 96 28 -
Club 7-75 80 0 -
Big Stone Lake State Park 67 35 -
Rustling Elms Resort 60 6 -
Graceville Golf Club 50 21 -
Correll 35 45 -
Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge 30 0 -
Johnson 25 36 -
Toqua County Park 25 0 -

Compare beyond Minnesota

Lower-flagged peers for Big Stone County

Cross-state counties nearest Big Stone County on flagged-system share (76.5%) and cumulative violation count (304). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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