Transient Non-Community · PWSID MN5691060

Sherrick's Wilderness Resort, Inc.

Serves 25 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateCrane Lake, 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: 9 violations. 5 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
4Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 97% 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: 12018 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 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.
56% missed or late test · 544% notice or report · 4

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

Open now (3)

  1. 2024-11-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-10-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-09-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-11-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-10-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2024-09-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2024-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  6. 2024-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2018-05-19Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  9. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections5
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCrane Lake
EPA ZIP on file55725

Areas served

  • St. Louis County

Reading this record

Sherrick's Wilderness Resort, Inc. is a transient non-community that draws from surface water and serves about 25 people in Crane Lake, 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.