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Community Water System · PWS IA2346047

Lost Nation Water Supply

Operator location Lost Nation, Iowa - 29% of 118 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 434 served per SDWIS.

434
People served (this PWS)
118
EPA violations (this PWS)
34
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lost Nation Water Supply standing, high SDWIS violation third

29% of 118 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 29% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Lost Nation Water Supply sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (118), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (434; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 29% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

118
Total EPA violations on record
29%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
434
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

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
249
County
Clinton
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
34
Monitoring Violations
66
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 22 2013
Nitrate MCL 12 2014
Nitrate MR 11 2024
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 7 2018
CYANIDE MR 4 2013
Antimony, Total MR 4 2013
Arsenic MR 4 2013
Cadmium MR 4 2013
Fluoride MR 4 2013
Mercury MR 4 2013
Selenium MR 4 2013
Thallium, Total MR 4 2013
Groundwater Rule Other 4 2019
Public Notice Other 4 2022
Barium MR 4 2013
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 4 2006
Chromium MR 4 2013
Beryllium, Total MR 4 2013
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 3 2022

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lost Nation Water Supply has 118 recorded EPA violations, 76% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 23% carry more. 29% of this system's own violations are health-based (34 of 118), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

118 Higher than most more violations than 76% 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 Lost Nation Water Supply

34 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA2346047.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

118 violations · 434 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Lost Nation Water Supply

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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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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