What's in Albany's water?

Albany has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,805 people through 987 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

Albany has 4 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,903th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 31th percentile nationally.

How Albany compares within MN

MN's 254 covered systems average 0.8 health-based violations each; Albany carries 1, more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for Albany is from 2026-01-01 (health-based: 2007-11-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/28/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

Albany's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:

• Other regulated metals - flagged from: Arsenic

The most severe category on record is other regulated metals, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

This is what Albany reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 4 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.