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Swift County, Minnesota

21 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 6,837 people in Swift County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

21
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
219
Total violations Lower third of counties
61.9%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
-
UCMR5 PFAS (none tested) No UCMR5 tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MN151 · Swift County 21 sys · 219 viol · #2634/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-BOTTOM · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 61.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 45.7% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2634/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.5 pp
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 21 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Hennepin County ( -0.5 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Swift County ranks #2,634 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #74 of 87 counties in Minnesota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Swift County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 61.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 45.7% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Swift County . Population served ranks #2,634 of 3,254 · #74 of 87 in Minnesota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Swift County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahnomen · lowest Stearns · near Hennepin · near Watonwan · highest 22.2% 60.6% 60.7% 60.7% 61.4% 61.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Swift County

Cross-state counties nearest Swift County on flagged-system share (61.9%) and cumulative violation count (219). 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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