Community Water System · PWS MN1600012
Nielsville
Operator location Nielsville, Minnesota - 94% of 16 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 76 served per SDWIS.
- 76
- People served (this PWS) Smaller third of systems
- 16
- EPA violations (this PWS) Lower third of systems
- 15
- Health-based (this PWS) Upper third by health-based share
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS) No UCMR5 result
Nielsville standing, low SDWIS violation third
94% of 16 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 94% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Nielsville is in the lower third by violation count (16; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is smaller (76; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 94% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 16
- Total EPA violations on record
- 94%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 76
- 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.
Based on EPA SDWIS violation history and UCMR5 PFAS testing only, not water taste, odor, infrastructure age, or contaminants outside the federally tracked set.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 51
- County
- Polk
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 15
- Monitoring Violations
- 0
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 15 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Nielsville has 16 recorded EPA violations, 26% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 72% carry more. 94% of this system's own violations are health-based (15 of 16), 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)
16 Lower than most fewer violations than 72% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
How many violations vs. how serious, among peer systems
Nielsville plotted against 29 peer public water systems (500+ people served), by total violation count (x) and the share of those violations that are health-based (y). The crosshair sits at this sample's own median on each axis. A high violation count does not automatically mean a serious record: most monitoring and reporting violations are minor, not health-based.
Violation volume vs. health-based share
Health-based violations on Nielsville
15 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MN1600012.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
16 violations · 76 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Nielsville
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
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