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Community Water System · PWS MN1740001

Blooming Prairie

Operator location Blooming Prairie, Minnesota - 69% of 16 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,987 served per SDWIS.

1,987
People served (this PWS)
16
EPA violations (this PWS)
11
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Blooming Prairie standing, low SDWIS violation third

69% 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 69% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,729 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Blooming Prairie 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 mid-pack at 1,987 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 69% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#13,729 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#254 of 677
Population · MN
16
Total EPA violations on record
69%
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
Local
Connections
860
County
Steele
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
11
Monitoring Violations
4
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 11 2015
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2008

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Blooming Prairie has 16 recorded EPA violations, 26% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 72% carry more. 69% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 16), and it ranks #13,729 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)

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

Health-based violations on Blooming Prairie

11 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MN1740001.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

16 violations · 1,987 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Blooming Prairie

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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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