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Community Water System · PWS MN1240016

Twin Lakes

Operator location Twin Lakes, Minnesota - 86% of 28 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 134 served per SDWIS.

134
People served (this PWS)
28
EPA violations (this PWS)
24
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Twin Lakes standing, mid SDWIS violation third

86% of 28 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 86% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Twin Lakes lands in the middle third by violation volume (28), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (134; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 86% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

28
Total EPA violations on record
86%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
134
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
82
County
Freeborn
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
24
Monitoring Violations
3
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MCL 24 2020
Coliform (TCR) MR 3 1992

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Twin Lakes has 28 recorded EPA violations, 40% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 59% carry more. 86% of this system's own violations are health-based (24 of 28), 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)

28 Lower than most fewer violations than 59% 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 Twin Lakes

24 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MN1240016.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

28 violations · 134 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Twin Lakes

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
  • Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater