What's in Paynesville's water?

Paynesville's only violations on record are reporting or monitoring lapses, not a contaminant or treatment-technique failure EPA classifies as health-based. Population served: 2,575, over 1,062 connections.

Paynesville's record against the rest of the country

Paynesville has 1 violation on record in total, 0 of thems health-based - ranking it 12,530th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 3th percentile nationally.

Against the MN average

Paynesville's 0 health-based violations sit within the MN average of 0.8, across 254 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

What Paynesville's record does not cover

Paynesville'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 Paynesville's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 12,530th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.