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Faribault County, Minnesota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MN043 · Faribault County 28 sys · 212 viol · #2275/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 64.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 75.0% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2275/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.6 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 28 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Martin County ( -0.6 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Faribault County ranks #2,275 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #58 of 87 counties in Minnesota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Faribault County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 64.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 75.0% 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 #2,275 of 3,254 · #58 of 87 in Minnesota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Faribault County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahnomen · lowest Cook · near Faribault · this county Watonwan · highest 22.2% 61.9% 63.4% 63.6% 64.3% 66.7% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Faribault County

Cross-state counties nearest Faribault County on flagged-system share (64.3%) and cumulative violation count (212). 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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