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County drinking water records

Steele County, MN drinking water systems

7 community water systems serve Steele County, MN, reporting 30,780 people served in all.

2 of them had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 2 systems still have one unresolved.

7 rely mainly on groundwater, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 3 lead lines, 69 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 1,272 lines of unknown material.

Community water systems
7
People served, sum of each system's own figure
30,780
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
2
Systems with one unresolved
2
Lead service lines in inventories
3

Water systems serving Steele County

7 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Owatonna Owatonna 26,430 Groundwater 0 0 1
Blooming Prairie Blooming Prairie 1,987 Groundwater 0 0 1
Medford Medford 1,200 Groundwater 0 0 0
Ellendale Ellendale 636 Groundwater 0 0 1
Lazy U Community Outside cities and towns 426 Groundwater 1 1 0
Thompson Oaks Outside cities and towns 51 Groundwater 10 0 0
Hope Water Cooperative Outside cities and towns 50 Groundwater 0 1 0

Cities and towns in Steele County

4 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations