Transient Non-Community · PWSID MN5690244

Lodge of Whispering Pines

Serves 45 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateEly, Minnesota
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2016: 31 violations. 5 treatment lapses · 23 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
5Treatment lapse
23Missed or late test
3Notice or report3 open

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

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Treatment lapse: 22025 · Treatment lapse: 22025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
16% treatment lapse · 574% missed or late test · 2310% notice or report · 3

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

Open now (3)

  1. 2023-12-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2023-11-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2023-11-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2025-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2025-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  9. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  11. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  13. 2023-12-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  14. 2023-11-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  15. 2023-11-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  16. 2023-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  17. 2023-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  18. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2022-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  20. 2022-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  21. 2022-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  22. 2022-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  23. 2022-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  24. 2022-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  25. 2022-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
Show the other 6 entries
  1. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2016-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served45
Service connections19
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityEly
EPA ZIP on file55731

Areas served

  • St. Louis County

Reading this record

Lodge of Whispering Pines is a transient non-community that draws from surface water and serves about 45 people in Ely, 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.