Community Water System · PWS MN1850006
Lewiston
Operator location Lewiston, Minnesota - 47% of 72 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,520 served per SDWIS.
- 1,520
- People served (this PWS)
- 72
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 34
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lewiston standing, mid SDWIS violation third
47% of 72 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 47% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,750 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Lewiston lands in the middle third by violation volume (72), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,520 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 47% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,750 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #291 of 677
- Population · MN
- 72
- Total EPA violations on record
- 47%
- 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
- 604
- County
- Winona
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 34
- Monitoring Violations
- 30
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 30 | 1996 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 20 | 2018 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 14 | 1998 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lewiston has 72 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 47% of this system's own violations are health-based (34 of 72), and it ranks #15,750 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)
72 Around the middle fewer violations than 34% 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 Lewiston
34 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MN1850006.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
72 violations · 1,520 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 Lewiston
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
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