What's in South Saint Paul's water?
South Saint Paul has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 20,664 people get their water from it, across 6,841 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
10 total violations and 6 health-based ones put South Saint Paul at the 75th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,256 of 12,903.
Against the MN average
South Saint Paul's 6 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
South Saint Paul's most recent violation on record is dated 2020-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2020-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 05/28/2026.
The concern categories on record
South Saint Paul'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
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Revised Total Coliform Rule
The most severe category on record is radionuclides, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What South Saint Paul's record does not cover
South Saint Paul'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 South Saint Paul's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,256th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.