Is Cottage Grove's water safe to drink?

Cottage Grove's only violations on record are reporting or monitoring lapses, not a contaminant or treatment-technique failure EPA classifies as health-based. It serves 42,760 people through 13,760 service connections.

Cottage Grove's record against the rest of the country

Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, Cottage Grove ranks 12,280th by violation burden (5th percentile) - 1 violation total, 0 health-baseds.

How Cottage Grove compares within MN

Among the 254 MN systems in this dataset, the average is 0.8 health-based violations - Cottage Grove's 0 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

What this data is and is not

Cottage Grove'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. This record - 0 health-based violations on file for Cottage Grove - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.