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Cass County, Minnesota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MN021 · Cass County 256 sys · 990 viol · #1576/3254

VIOL-HIGH · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-MID · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-LARGE · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-HIGH 37.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 88.8% health
  • RANK-MID #1576/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 1.0 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-LARGE 256 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Becker County (+ 1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Cass County ranks #1,576 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #36 of 87 counties in Minnesota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Cass County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 37.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 88.8% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Cass County . Population served ranks #1,576 of 3,254 · #36 of 87 in Minnesota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Cass County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahnomen · lowest Kanabec · near Cass · this county Watonwan · highest 22.2% 35.1% 36.1% 36.4% 37.5% 38.5% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Cass County

Cross-state counties nearest Cass County on flagged-system share (37.5%) and cumulative violation count (990). 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.

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Similar violation load

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

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

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