What's in Red Wing's water?
Red Wing has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 16,459, over 6,344 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
3 total violations and 2 health-based ones put Red Wing at the 46th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,003 of 12,903.
How Red Wing compares within MN
Among the 254 MN systems in this dataset, the average is 0.8 health-based violations - Red Wing's 2 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 Red Wing is from 2000-12-11 (health-based: 2000-12-11). Last reported to EPA: 05/28/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Red Wing'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); 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
This is what Red Wing 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 Red Wing's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,003th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.