Community Water System · PWS IA0685045
Van Horne Water Works
Operator location Van Horne, Iowa - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 779 people served; 53 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 779
- People served (this PWS) Smaller third of systems
- 53
- EPA violations (this PWS) Middle third of systems
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS) Middle third by health-based share
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS) No UCMR5 result
Van Horne Water Works standing, mid SDWIS violation third
779 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #22,975 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Van Horne Water Works lands in the middle third by violation volume (53), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (779; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #22,975 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #410 of 545
- Population · IA
- 53
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
Based on EPA SDWIS violation history and UCMR5 PFAS testing only, not water taste, odor, infrastructure age, or contaminants outside the federally tracked set.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 325
- County
- Benton
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 34
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2012 |
| Arsenic | MR | 8 | 2001 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2012 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 4 | 1999 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 1997 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Van Horne Water Works has 53 recorded EPA violations, 58% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 41% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 53), and it ranks #22,975 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
53 Around the middle fewer violations than 41% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
How many violations vs. how serious, among peer systems
Van Horne Water Works plotted against 29 peer public water systems (500+ people served), by total violation count (x) and the share of those violations that are health-based (y). The crosshair sits at this sample's own median on each axis. A high violation count does not automatically mean a serious record: most monitoring and reporting violations are minor, not health-based.
Violation volume vs. health-based share
Population served record for Van Horne Water Works
EPA SDWIS lists 779 people served and 325 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
53 violations · 779 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Van Horne Water Works
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Iowa compares on the same EPA violation measures. Iowa systems
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