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Cottonwood County, Minnesota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MN033 · Cottonwood County 11 sys · 158 viol · #2064/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 40.5% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2064/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Nobles County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Cottonwood County ranks #2,064 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #53 of 87 counties in Minnesota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Cottonwood County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 40.5% 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 #2,064 of 3,254 · #53 of 87 in Minnesota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Cottonwood County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahnomen · lowest Cottonwood · this county Nobles · near 22.2% 92.3% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Red Rock Rural Water System 5,840 27 Clean
Windom 4,646 14 Clean
Mountain Lake 2,018 10 -
Westbrook 785 8 -
Jeffers 369 11 -
Storden 215 12 -
Amo Lutheran Church 130 36 -
Bingham Lake 128 6 -
Delft 58 2 -
Neuhof Hutterian Brethren 55 16 -
Shalom Hill Farm 25 16 -

Compare beyond Minnesota

Mid-flagged peers for Cottonwood County

Cross-state counties nearest Cottonwood County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (158). 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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