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MN Correctional Facility - Faribault

What EPA’s and Minnesota’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
2,103 people
Connections
47
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Faribault, MN
County
Rice
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

55021

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate: Minnesota’s yearly summaries per water system, 2023 to 2025.

Fluoride, arsenic and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Nov. 18, 2013 to Nov. 19, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.74ppb

Highest yearly average, 2024 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.74 ppb, in 2024: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.3ppm

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

2019 average: 0.78 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.3 ppm, in 2013, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, its five samples averaged 0.78 ppm.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

24.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2023 to 2025

2025 average: 23.7 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 24.5 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it averaged 23.7 ppb.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

8.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2023 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 8.0 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Nitrate

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

None of the filters TapBuff has checked so far carry these claims. Search the certifier listings for the claim above.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 3 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate results here are Minnesota’s own yearly summaries from 2023 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fluoride, arsenic and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. MN Correctional Facility - Faribault’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Minnesota’s yearly summaries cover 2023 to 2025; EPA’s compliance samples are from Nov. 18, 2013 to Nov. 19, 2019.

Testing your own tap

MN Correctional Facility - Faribault’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Minnesota certifies.

The 3 labs Minnesota certifies closest to the area MN Correctional Facility - Faribault serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • UC Laboratory

    Janesville, MN · about 26 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals

    (507) 234-5835

  • RMB Environmental Laboratories, Inc. - Burnsville

    Burnsville, MN · about 33 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (952) 456-8470

  • Tri-City/William Lloyd Analytical Lab

    Bloomington, MN · about 36 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals

    (952) 563-4904

All 24 certified labs for Minnesota

Sources

PWSID MN1660005. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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