Tapcensus

The Meadows

Community water system in Wright County, Minnesota, serving 1,000 people from ground water. 2 rules violated in the past three years. Privately owned.

People served 1,000 ground water
Rules violated, past 3 years 2 one rule can carry several violations
Unresolved 0 rules currently in violation, EPA data updated Oct 7, 2026
Quarters with violations 3 of the last 12 quarters

Quarterly compliance history

–Q3
2023
–Q4
2023
–Q1
2024
–Q2
2024
–Q3
2024
VQ4
2024
–Q1
2025
–Q2
2025
SQ3
2025
VQ4
2025
–Q1
2026
–Q2
2026
–Q3
2026
–No violation identified VViolation identified SSerious violator (EPA enforcement priority) UUndetermined Oldest quarter on the left. Quarters 1 to 12 are the twelve most recent official quarters at EPA's last data refresh; the 13th is the quarter in progress at that refresh, which EPA reports as undetermined.

Rules violated in the past three years

Jul to Sep 2023 to Jul to Sep 2026

Nitrate Rule

Maximum Contaminant Level Violation Health-based

3 violations, Oct 2024 to Jan 2026 · 3 measured values

EPA rule code 331 · 3 violations recorded, 3 health-based

Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, health-based: 3 violations, Oct 2024 to Jan 2026. A sample exceeded the maximum contaminant level EPA allows in drinking water.

Measured
Nitrate 5 MG/L

Oct to Dec 2025

Nitrate 8.7 MG/L

Jul to Sep 2025

Nitrate 10.5 MG/L

Oct to Dec 2024

What the rule requires: Nitrate (NO₃) is the most common chemical contaminant in US groundwater, entering from fertilizers, septic systems, and animal waste. It is odorless and tasteless — the only way to know if it's present is to test.

Health effects: Methemoglobinemia in infants under 6 months: gut bacteria convert nitrate to nitrite, which blocks oxygen transport in blood. Pregnant women should also take precautions. Chronic adult exposure at elevated levels may increase cancer risk. Limit: 10 mg/L as nitrogen (NO₃-N)

About this rule

Public Notice Rule and Revised PN Rule

Other Violation

1 violation, Nov 2024 to Nov 2024 · Public Notification Rule

EPA rule code 410 · 1 violation recorded

Other Violation: 1 violation, Nov 2024 to Nov 2024. A requirement other than monitoring, reporting, or a contaminant limit, such as public notice or the annual water quality report.

Contaminant on the record: Public Notification Rule.

Lead and copper at the tap

The 90th percentile of the tap samples the system collected in its latest monitoring period, against EPA's action level. Levels vary between homes.

Lead 0.001 mg/L

Action level 0.015 mg/L · Jan 2021 to Dec 2023

About this data

Rules violated and the list above come from EPA's SDWIS violation records, one row per violation and contaminant, grouped by the rule each row belongs to. A violation counts when its non-compliance period ended on or after Jul 1, 2023, the start of the thirteen quarters ECHO's three-year figures cover, or is still open; it is unresolved when it was still open at EPA's data refresh on Oct 7, 2026. EPA's rule code 500, "Not Regulated", is left out, as in ECHO's counts. Each rule's violation count is EPA's, and one rule can carry several: a missed monitoring round for a group of contaminants is one violation per contaminant and period. Category names are EPA's violation categories.

ECHO's own summary count of rules violated agrees with this grouping for 98.8% of active systems nationally, and its count of rules being violated for 98.7%; where they differ, the figures here follow the rows listed.

A measured value shown with a rule is the sample result EPA recorded with that violation (SDWIS viol_measure), against the limit EPA recorded on the same row (state_mcl), both in EPA's unit as written; violations without a recorded value, such as missed monitoring, show none. Other measured contaminant levels are not part of this record; each system publishes them in its annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Lead and copper are the newest 90th-percentile results in EPA's SDWA data download (LCR_SAMPLES, codes PB90 and CU90): for each monitoring period a system reports the 90th-percentile value of its tap samples, which EPA compares with its action level of 0.015 mg/L for lead and 1.3 mg/L for copper (40 CFR 141.80). A result is not a measurement of any one tap.

Service area from EPA's Public Water System Service Area Boundaries dataset: State agency. The system's location is the centre of the service area EPA publishes for the system.

Source: the U.S. EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online system (ECHO), which publishes the federal Safe Drinking Water Information System. EPA's terms and values are shown as published. The Minnesota records are from EPA's data refresh of Oct 7, 2026; EPA refreshes this data quarterly, and states report to EPA with a lag of three to six months, so the newest violations may not appear yet.