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Story County, Iowa

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IA169 · Story County 21 sys · 1,299 viol · #509/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 85.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 9.9% health
  • RANK-TOP #509/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-LOW 16.7% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 76%
  • SYS-SMALL 21 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Story County ranks #509 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #6 of 99 counties in Iowa. See methodology · corpus placement.

Story 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 9.9% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 16.7% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #509 of 3,254 · #6 of 99 in Iowa.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Story County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahaska · lowest Story · 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
Ames Water Treatment Plant 55,177 34 Clean
Isu 42,000 49 Clean
Nevada Water Supply 6,925 212 Clean
Huxley Waterworks Dept 4,244 19 Clean
Story City Water Dept 3,357 40 Clean
Slater Muni Water Dept 1,548 40 -
Roland Water Supply 1,394 57 -
Gilbert Water Supply 1,211 164 -
Maxwell Water Department 859 46 -
Colo Water Supply 853 34 -
Cambridge Water Supply 832 43 Detected
Zearing Water Department 528 97 -
Collins Water Supply 505 88 -
McCallsburg Water Supply 353 74 -
Kelley Water Supply 304 8 -
New Horizons MHP LLC 298 0 -
Irua (Huxley) 205 0 -
Maple Grove Mhc 160 164 -
Hammond Estates 150 0 -
Squaw Valley South Subdivision 105 69 -
Alluvial Brewing Company 100 61 -

Compare beyond Iowa

Lower-flagged peers for Story County

Cross-state counties nearest Story County on flagged-system share (85.7%) and cumulative violation count (1,299). 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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