Community Water System · PWS MN1800003
Verndale
Operator location Verndale, Minnesota - 79% of 14 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 506 served per SDWIS.
- 506
- People served (this PWS)
- 14
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 11
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Verndale standing, low SDWIS violation third
79% of 14 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 79% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #28,495 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Verndale is in the lower third by violation count (14; 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 (506; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 79% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #28,495 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #623 of 677
- Population · MN
- 14
- Total EPA violations on record
- 79%
- 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
- 235
- County
- Wadena
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 11
- Monitoring Violations
- 3
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 2002 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 5 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Verndale has 14 recorded EPA violations, 24% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 75% carry more. 79% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 14), and it ranks #28,495 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)
14 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 75% 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 Verndale
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 MN1800003.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
14 violations · 506 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Verndale
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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