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Stearns County, Minnesota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MN145 · Stearns County 214 sys · 2,315 viol · #386/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-LARGE · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 60.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 59.1% health
  • RANK-TOP #386/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 62.5% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 99%
  • SYS-LARGE 214 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Stearns County ranks #386 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #7 of 87 counties in Minnesota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Stearns County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 60.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 59.1% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 62.5% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #386 of 3,254 · #7 of 87 in Minnesota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Stearns County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahnomen · lowest Ramsey · near Stearns · this county Watonwan · highest 22.2% 60.3% 60.5% 60.6% 60.7% 60.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Saint Cloud 71,321 7 Detected
Sartell 20,300 17 Detected
Waite Park 8,354 6 Detected
Saint Joseph 7,100 19 Clean
Sauk Centre 4,573 9 Clean
Cold Spring 4,201 78 Clean
Melrose 3,677 25 Detected
Albany 2,805 18 -
Paynesville 2,530 3 -
Saint John's University 2,500 36 -
Avon 1,667 4 -
College of St. Benedict 1,600 29 -
Richmond 1,485 19 -
Saint Augusta 1,425 7 -
Pilgrim's 1,300 2 -
Fuller Lake Wayside Rest MNDOT 1,175 56 -
Big Spunk Wayside Rest Area MNDOT 1,001 39 -
Middle Spunk Wayside Rest Area MNDOT 1,001 31 -
Powder Ridge Ski Corporation 999 7 -
Kimball 911 4 -
The Waters Church 900 0 -
St. Stephen Church 850 7 -
Holdingford 770 3 Detected
Rockville 765 20 -
Bel Clare Estates 750 41 -
A.J. Acres Campground, Inc. 750 29 -
Belgrade 745 5 -
Freeport 685 9 -
Brooten 646 21 -
Coldspring 610 8 -
Casey's General Store #3306 600 0 -
El Rancho Manana 500 13 -
Cozy Corners 500 0 -
Bayer Built, Inc. 470 0 -
Polar Tank Trailer, LLC 450 0 -
St. Stephen Gas & Grocery 375 0 -
Clearwater Forest Mobile Home Park 367 98 -
Saint Martin 343 47 -
New Munich 320 69 -
Stearns County Park-Warner Lake 300 27 -
Shady's Sunset Bay 300 0 -
Hayloft Bar & Grill 300 7 -
Clearwater RV Park 300 14 -
Koronis Ministries 275 7 -
Hemker Park and Zoo 260 0 -
St. Anthony Church 250 6 -
Hilltop Family Restaurant 250 0 -
The Store 250 0 -
King Bee Camp 240 0 -
Koronis Hills Golf Club 225 5 -

Compare beyond Minnesota

Lower-flagged peers for Stearns County

Cross-state counties nearest Stearns County on flagged-system share (60.7%) and cumulative violation count (2,315). 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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