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Marion County, Iowa

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IA125 · Marion County 14 sys · 760 viol · #1362/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 85.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 7.2% health
  • RANK-MID #1362/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 14 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Marion County ranks #1,362 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #23 of 99 counties in Iowa. See methodology · corpus placement.

Marion County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 85.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 7.2% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #1,362 of 3,254 · #23 of 99 in Iowa.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Marion County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahaska · lowest Marion · this county O'Brien · near Ringgold · highest 75% 85% 85.7% 85.7% 85.7% 87.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Pella Water Works Department 11,052 418 Clean
Knoxville Water Works 8,400 20 Clean
Marion Co. Rural Water District 5,687 15 Clean
Pleasantville Water Works 1,676 15 -
Melcher-Dallas Water Supply 1,213 37 Clean
Irua - Pershing Utilities 488 16 -
Bussey Water Supply 427 104 -
Wheel Estates Mhc 315 0 -
Colonial Terrace MHP LLC 250 0 -
Sunrise Mill 237 12 -
Harvey Water Works 236 32 -
Southshore Heights 138 2 -
Vista Village Mhc 110 4 -
Swan Water Works 76 85 -

Compare beyond Iowa

Lower-flagged peers for Marion County

Cross-state counties nearest Marion County on flagged-system share (85.7%) and cumulative violation count (760). 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.

4 peers

Similar violation load

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

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

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