Howard Lake: EPA violation history, explained
Howard Lake has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,180 people through 1,120 service connections.
How this compares nationally
9 total violations and 1 health-based ones put Howard Lake at the 35th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,337 of 12,903.
How Howard Lake compares within MN
Among the 254 MN systems in this dataset, the average is 0.8 health-based violations - Howard Lake's 1 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Howard Lake is from 2022-01-01 (health-based: 1987-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/28/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Howard Lake'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:
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
The most severe category on record is radionuclides, 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 Howard Lake 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. Between the utility's meter and Howard Lake's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,337th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.