Community Water System · PWS MN1860010
Howard Lake
Operator location Howard Lake, Minnesota - 14% of 43 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 2,180 served per SDWIS.
- 2,180
- People served (this PWS)
- 43
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Howard Lake standing, mid SDWIS violation third
14% of 43 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #12,941 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Howard Lake lands in the middle third by violation volume (43), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,180 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,941 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #237 of 677
- Population · MN
- 43
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- 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
- 1,120
- County
- Wright
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 24
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 13 | 2013 |
| Chlorine | MR | 8 | 2013 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 6 | 1987 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2022 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Howard Lake has 43 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 47% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 43), and it ranks #12,941 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)
43 Around the middle fewer violations than 47% 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 Howard Lake
6 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MN1860010.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
43 violations · 2,180 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 Howard Lake
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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