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Blue Earth County, Minnesota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MN013 · Blue Earth County 64 sys · 867 viol · #842/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 57.8% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 47.2% health
  • RANK-UPPER #842/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.4 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 98%
  • SYS-MID 64 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Mower County ( -0.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Blue Earth County ranks #842 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #15 of 87 counties in Minnesota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Blue Earth County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 57.8% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 47.2% 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 #842 of 3,254 · #15 of 87 in Minnesota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Blue Earth County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahnomen · lowest Blue Earth · this county Wilkin · near Watonwan · highest 22.2% 57.4% 57.8% 58.2% 58.3% 58.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Mankato 42,803 4 Clean
Eagle Lake 3,268 7 -
Lake Crystal 2,554 25 -
Mapleton 1,756 28 -
Madison Lake 1,017 33 -
Bray Park 1,000 35 -
Saint Clair 846 6 Clean
Good Thunder 583 34 -
Amboy 535 53 Clean
Mount Kato 500 28 -
South Bend Township 325 9 -
Vernon Center 323 24 -
Skyline 289 18 -
Pemberton 247 37 -
MN Elevator Inc./Vertitron Midwest, Inc. 165 0 -
Rapidan Development Company, Inc. 164 66 -
T.B.E.I., Inc. 150 7 -
Hiniker Company 150 15 -
Terrace View Golf Course 150 21 -
School Sisters of Notre Dame 140 31 -
Vetter Stone Company 135 0 -
Redeemer Lutheran Church 125 19 -
Cambria Presbyterian Church 125 0 -
St. John's Lutheran Church 100 21 -
Blue Earth Co Fair/Shady Oaks Campground 100 6 -
The Windmill Bar and Lounge 100 19 -
Minneopa State Park 100 14 -
William Minneopa Learning Center 100 7 -
Connect Point United Pentecostal Church 100 0 -
Hillcrest Health Care Center 94 9 -
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church 90 0 -
Daly Park 85 28 -
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church 75 7 -
A.H. Hermel Company 75 0 -
Land of Memories Campground 75 0 -
Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church 75 0 -
Riverbend Homes and More 60 170 -
Downs Food Group 50 0 -
NUSS Truck and Equipment 50 0 -
Minneopa Golf Club 50 7 -
Trinity Lutheran Church Fieldon 50 28 -
Red Jacket County Park 50 7 -
Morgan Creek Winery 50 0 -
Wellcome Manor 50 7 -
Indian Island Winery, LLC 50 0 -
Weagel Park 50 0 -
R & E Enterprises of Mankato, Inc. 50 0 -
Sunset Bay 48 0 -
Tommyguns Paint War, Inc. 45 7 -
Benco Electric Cooperative 40 0 -

Compare beyond Minnesota

Lower-flagged peers for Blue Earth County

Cross-state counties nearest Blue Earth County on flagged-system share (57.8%) and cumulative violation count (867). 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

Read our methodology · Check your water system - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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

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