BARNES RURAL WATER DISTRICT: EPA violation history, explained

BARNES RURAL WATER DISTRICT has no violations on record in EPA's SDWIS data. 4,938 people get their water from it, across 1,975 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

0 total violations and 0 health-based ones put BARNES RURAL WATER DISTRICT at the 1th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 12,749 of 12,903.

Against the ND average

Among the 52 ND systems in this dataset, the average is 2.1 health-based violations - BARNES RURAL WATER DISTRICT's 0 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Why "no violations" needs a caveat here

BARNES RURAL WATER DISTRICT serves 4,938 people. EPA requires smaller systems to test less often than large ones, so a clean record here is real but weaker evidence than the same record on a system serving hundreds of thousands - fewer tests means fewer chances to catch a problem. See the guide to reading a clean record for what that does and does not tell you.

What BARNES RURAL WATER DISTRICT's record does not cover

BARNES RURAL WATER DISTRICT'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 BARNES RURAL WATER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 12,749th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.