Community Water System · PWS IA2427049
Dow City Water Works
Operator location Dow City, Iowa - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 467 people served; 79 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 467
- People served (this PWS)
- 79
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 11
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Dow City Water Works standing, high SDWIS violation third
467 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Dow City Water Works sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (79), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (467; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 79
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 467
- 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
- 255
- County
- Crawford
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 11
- Monitoring Violations
- 53
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 17 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 2004 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 9 | 2016 |
| Nitrite | MR | 5 | 1994 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 5 | 1992 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2019 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Selenium | MCL | 2 | 1979 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Dow City Water Works has 79 recorded EPA violations, 68% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 32% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 79), 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)
79 Around the middle fewer violations than 32% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Dow City Water Works
EPA SDWIS lists 467 people served and 255 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
79 violations · 467 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Dow City Water Works
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