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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MN5360052

Thunderbird Lodge

Operator location International Falls, Minnesota - 51% of 95 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 100 served per SDWIS.

100
People served (this PWS)
95
EPA violations (this PWS)
48
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Thunderbird Lodge standing, high SDWIS violation third

51% of 95 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 51% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Thunderbird Lodge sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (95), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (100; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 51% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

95
Total EPA violations on record
51%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
100
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
27
County
Koochiching
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
47
Treatment Tech Violations
48

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 26 2024
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 22 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 20 2014
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 13 2025
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 10 2025
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 4 2023

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Thunderbird Lodge has 95 recorded EPA violations, 72% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 28% carry more. 51% of this system's own violations are health-based (48 of 95), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

95 Around the middle fewer violations than 28% 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 Thunderbird Lodge

48 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MN5360052.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

95 violations · 100 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with comparable violation load

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

What to do with Thunderbird Lodge

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