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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MN5730100

Paynesville Evangelical Free Church

Operator location Paynesville, Minnesota - 86% of 22 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 135 served per SDWIS.

135
People served (this PWS)
22
EPA violations (this PWS)
19
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Paynesville Evangelical Free Church standing, mid SDWIS violation third

86% of 22 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 86% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Paynesville Evangelical Free Church lands in the middle third by violation volume (22), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (135; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 86% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

22
Total EPA violations on record
86%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
135
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
2
County
Stearns
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
19
Monitoring Violations
3
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MCL 12 2014
Coliform (TCR) MCL 7 2001
Nitrate MR 3 2014

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Paynesville Evangelical Free Church has 22 recorded EPA violations, 34% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 65% carry more. 86% of this system's own violations are health-based (19 of 22), 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)

22 Lower than most fewer violations than 65% 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 Paynesville Evangelical Free Church

19 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MN5730100.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

22 violations · 135 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.

4 peers

What to do with Paynesville Evangelical Free Church

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