Community Water System · PWS MN1730034
College of St. Benedict
Operator location St. Joseph, Minnesota - 0% of 29 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 1,600 served per SDWIS.
- 1,600
- People served (this PWS)
- 29
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
College of St. Benedict standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 29 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #15,353 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
College of St. Benedict lands in the middle third by violation volume (29), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,600 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,353 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #282 of 677
- Population · MN
- 29
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 32
- County
- Stearns
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 26
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 26 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
College of St. Benedict has 29 recorded EPA violations, 41% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 58% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 29), and it ranks #15,353 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
29 Lower than most fewer violations than 58% 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 College of St. Benedict
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MN1730034.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
29 violations · 1,600 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with College of St. Benedict
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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