Community Water System · PWS IA1207061
Aplington Water Supply
Operator location Aplington, Iowa - 6% of 64 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,126 served per SDWIS.
- 1,126
- People served (this PWS)
- 64
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Aplington Water Supply standing, mid SDWIS violation third
6% of 64 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,390 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Aplington Water Supply lands in the middle third by violation volume (64), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,126 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,390 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #307 of 545
- Population · IA
- 64
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 440
- County
- Butler
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 41
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 24 | 2011 |
| Nitrite | MR | 8 | 2013 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 5 | 2005 |
| Nitrite | MCL | 4 | 2017 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2011 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Aplington Water Supply has 64 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 64), and it ranks #18,390 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)
64 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Aplington Water Supply
4 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA1207061.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
64 violations · 1,126 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Aplington Water Supply
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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