United Natural Foods

Water Quality Snapshot: United Natural Foods

United Natural Foods is a private-owned non-transient non-community water system that delivers drinking water to 330 residents in Minneapolis, New Hampshire (Cheshire County) through 4 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 40 total violations for this system , of which 4 (10%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 22 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Revised Total Coliform Rule, recorded in 12 violations (MON). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across New Hampshire, EPA tracks 2,453 public water systems serving 1,242,123 people, with 155,970 cumulative violations and 29,649 health-based violations on record. About 90% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 63.6 violations. Statewide, 23 of 51 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (45.1%).

United Natural Foods's 40 violations sit below the New Hampshire average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.