Community Water System · PWS MN1120006
Watson
Operator location Watson, Minnesota - 48% of 54 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 175 served per SDWIS.
- 175
- People served (this PWS)
- 54
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 26
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Watson standing, mid SDWIS violation third
48% of 54 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 48% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Watson lands in the middle third by violation volume (54), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (175; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 48% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 54
- Total EPA violations on record
- 48%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 175
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 97
- County
- Chippewa
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 26
- Monitoring Violations
- 23
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 15 | 2007 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 11 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 11 | 2013 |
| Chlorine | MR | 8 | 2013 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 5 | 2006 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 2 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Watson has 54 recorded EPA violations, 59% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 41% carry more. 48% of this system's own violations are health-based (26 of 54), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
54 Around the middle fewer violations than 41% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Watson
26 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MN1120006.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
54 violations · 175 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Watson
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Minnesota compares on the same EPA violation measures. Minnesota systems
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