Sleepy Eye: EPA violation history, explained

Sleepy Eye has no violations on record in EPA's SDWIS data. 3,599 people get their water from it, across 1,467 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

0 total violations and 0 health-based ones put Sleepy Eye at the 1th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 12,804 of 12,903.

Against the MN average

Among the 254 MN systems in this dataset, the average is 0.8 health-based violations - Sleepy Eye's 0 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Why "no violations" needs a caveat here

Sleepy Eye serves 3,599 people. EPA requires smaller systems to test less often than large ones, so a clean record here is real but weaker evidence than the same record on a system serving hundreds of thousands - fewer tests means fewer chances to catch a problem. See the guide to reading a clean record for what that does and does not tell you.

What Sleepy Eye's record does not cover

Sleepy Eye'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 Sleepy Eye's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 12,804th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.