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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MN5730378

Big Spunk Wayside Rest Area MNDOT

Operator location St. Paul, Minnesota - 54% of 39 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,001 served per SDWIS.

1,001
People served (this PWS)
39
EPA violations (this PWS)
21
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Big Spunk Wayside Rest Area MNDOT standing, mid SDWIS violation third

54% of 39 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 54% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #19,438 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Big Spunk Wayside Rest Area MNDOT lands in the middle third by violation volume (39), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,001 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 54% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#19,438 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#381 of 677
Population · MN
39
Total EPA violations on record
54%
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
State
Connections
2
County
Stearns
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
21
Monitoring Violations
18
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 21 2010
Coliform (TCR) MR 18 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Big Spunk Wayside Rest Area MNDOT has 39 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 50% carry more. 54% of this system's own violations are health-based (21 of 39), and it ranks #19,438 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)

39 Lower than most fewer violations than 50% 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 Big Spunk Wayside Rest Area MNDOT

21 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MN5730378.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

39 violations · 1,001 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Big Spunk Wayside Rest Area MNDOT

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