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Pipestone County, Minnesota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MN117 · Pipestone County 12 sys · 277 viol · #2600/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 83.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 29.6% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2600/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±1.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Marshall County ( -1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Pipestone County ranks #2,600 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #72 of 87 counties in Minnesota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Pipestone County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 83.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 29.6% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #2,600 of 3,254 · #72 of 87 in Minnesota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Pipestone County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahnomen · lowest Pipestone · this county Sibley · near Watonwan · highest 22.2% 82.4% 83.3% 84.6% 85% 87.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Pipestone 4,273 9 Detected
Edgerton 1,281 50 -
Jasper 623 2 -
Ruthton 220 33 -
Holland 187 10 -
Split Rock Creek State Park 156 0 -
Woodstock 108 23 -
Heartland Colony 90 9 -
Trosky 86 88 -
Ihlen 63 37 -
Hatfield Municipal Water Supply 54 16 -
Cenex Harvest States 25 0 -

Compare beyond Minnesota

Lower-flagged peers for Pipestone County

Cross-state counties nearest Pipestone County on flagged-system share (83.3%) and cumulative violation count (277). 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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