Is Saint Cloud's water safe to drink?
Saint Cloud has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 71,321 people through 18,554 service connections.
Saint Cloud's record against the rest of the country
1 total violations and 1 health-based ones put Saint Cloud at the 29th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 9,178 of 12,903.
How Saint Cloud compares within MN
Saint Cloud's 1 health-based violations sit above the MN average of 0.8, across 254 systems statewide. 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 Saint Cloud is from 2006-01-02 (health-based: 2006-01-02). Last reported to EPA: 05/28/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Saint Cloud'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
Saint Cloud'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 Saint Cloud - 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.