Community Water System · PWSID MN1030022

Brandy Lake Estates

Serves 40 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateDetroit Lakes, Minnesota
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On record since 2000: 37 violations. 23 over the limit · 14 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

23Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
14Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 99% of active water systems in Minnesota. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2000 · Missed or late test: 1200020052007 · Missed or late test: 12009 · Over the limit: 22009 · Over the limit: 22010 · Over the limit: 42010 · Over the limit: 42010 · Over the limit: 42010 · Over the limit: 420102012 · Over the limit: 12013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32014 · Over the limit: 32014 · Over the limit: 32014 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
62% over the limit · 2338% missed or late test · 14

Across Minnesota, 77% of violations are missed or late tests and 9% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2018-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0112 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2018-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0120 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2018-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0118 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2018-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0115 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2017-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.009500 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2017-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.009500 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2017-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.009000 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2016-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0117 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  21. 2015-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2015-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2014-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0108 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2014-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2014-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0118 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 12 entries
  1. 2013-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0120 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2013-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0120 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2013-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0115 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2012-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2010-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0132 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2010-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0132 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2010-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0140 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2010-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0136 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2009-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0144 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2009-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0151 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2007-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2000-04-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served40
Service connections21
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDetroit Lakes
EPA ZIP on file56501

Areas served

  • Becker County

Reading this record

Brandy Lake Estates is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 40 people in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.