Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System: EPA violation history, explained

Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 13,644 people through 4,829 service connections.

Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System's record against the rest of the country

Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System has 7 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,447th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 35th percentile nationally.

Against the MN average

Among the 254 MN systems in this dataset, the average is 0.8 health-based violations - Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System's 1 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 1997-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 05/28/2026.

The concern categories on record

Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System'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:

• Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate

The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System's record does not cover

This is what Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System 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 Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,447th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.