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Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MN173 · Yellow Medicine County 13 sys · 208 viol · #2603/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-LOWER · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 92.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 21.6% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2603/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +3.0 pp
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 13 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Murray County ( -3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Yellow Medicine County ranks #2,603 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #73 of 87 counties in Minnesota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Yellow Medicine County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 92.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 21.6% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Yellow Medicine County . Population served ranks #2,603 of 3,254 · #73 of 87 in Minnesota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Yellow Medicine County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahnomen · lowest Murray · near Nobles · near 22.2% 85% 87.5% 89.3% 92.3% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Granite Falls 2,843 5 -
Canby 1,769 11 -
Clarkfield 841 28 -
Wood Lake 423 23 -
Hanley Falls 275 22 -
Echo 269 6 -
Bergen Lutheran Church 250 7 -
Porter 180 33 -
Saint Leo 97 28 -
Hazel Run 61 18 -
Granite Run Golf Course 50 20 -
The Rock 50 0 -
Green Door Steak House & Bar 25 7 -

Compare beyond Minnesota

Lower-flagged peers for Yellow Medicine County

Cross-state counties nearest Yellow Medicine County on flagged-system share (92.3%) and cumulative violation count (208). 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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