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Stevens County, Minnesota

21 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 8,136 people in Stevens County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

21
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
249
Total violations Lower third of counties
66.7%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (1 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MN149 · Stevens County 21 sys · 249 viol · #2510/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 66.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 63.9% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2510/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.4 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 21 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Winona County (+ 0.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Stevens County ranks #2,510 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #69 of 87 counties in Minnesota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Stevens County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 66.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 63.9% 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 #2,510 of 3,254 · #69 of 87 in Minnesota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Stevens County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahnomen · lowest Stevens · this county Fillmore · near Watonwan · highest 22.2% 64.3% 66.7% 67.1% 67.8% 69.2% 100%

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

Water Systems

Compare beyond Minnesota

Lower-flagged peers for Stevens County

Cross-state counties nearest Stevens County on flagged-system share (66.7%) and cumulative violation count (249). 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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