Pipestone: EPA violation history, explained
Pipestone has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 4,273, over 1,958 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Pipestone has 3 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 7,025th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 46th percentile nationally.
How Pipestone compares within MN
Pipestone's 2 health-based violations sit above the MN average of 0.8, across 254 systems statewide. 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 Pipestone is from 2008-01-10 (health-based: 2008-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/28/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Pipestone'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: Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
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
Everything on this page is Pipestone's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and Pipestone's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,025th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.