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Black Hawk County, Iowa

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IA013 · Black Hawk County 19 sys · 824 viol · #399/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 94.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 20.9% health
  • RANK-TOP #399/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 19 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Winnebago County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Black Hawk County ranks #399 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #5 of 99 counties in Iowa. See methodology · corpus placement.

Black Hawk County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 94.7% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 20.9% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #399 of 3,254 · #5 of 99 in Iowa.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Black Hawk County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Black Hawk County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahaska · lowest Winnebago · near Harrison · near Ringgold · highest 75% 94.7% 94.7% 95% 95% 95.3% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

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Mid-flagged peers for Black Hawk County

Cross-state counties nearest Black Hawk County on flagged-system share (94.7%) and cumulative violation count (824). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

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Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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