Is Le Center's water safe to drink?
Le Center has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,544 people get their water from it, across 923 connections.
How this compares nationally
Le Center has 26 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,720th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 40th percentile nationally.
How Le Center compares within MN
Among the 254 MN systems in this dataset, the average is 0.8 health-based violations - Le Center's 1 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Le Center is from 2025-01-04 (health-based: 1995-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/28/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Le Center'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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Le Center'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 - 1 health-based violation on file for Le Center - 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.