What's in Apple Valley's water?

Apple Valley's only violations on record are reporting or monitoring lapses, not a contaminant or treatment-technique failure EPA classifies as health-based. Population served: 50,300, over 16,178 connections.

Apple Valley's record against the rest of the country

1 total violations and 0 health-based ones put Apple Valley at the 5th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 12,271 of 12,903.

Against the MN average

MN's 254 covered systems average 0.8 health-based violations each; Apple Valley carries 0, not more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

What Apple Valley's record does not cover

Apple Valley's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and Apple Valley's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 12,271th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.