Community Water System · PWS IA2525010
Dawson Water Works
Operator location Dawson, Iowa - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 116 people served; 116 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 116
- People served (this PWS)
- 116
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 24
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Dawson Water Works standing, high SDWIS violation third
116 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Dawson Water Works sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (116), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (116; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 116
- Total EPA violations on record
- 21%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 116
- 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
- 81
- County
- Dallas
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 24
- Monitoring Violations
- 61
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 30 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 22 | 1997 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2025 |
| Fluoride | MR | 6 | 1987 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2023 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1986 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1986 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1986 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1986 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2025 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 2 | 1984 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1986 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1986 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Dawson Water Works has 116 recorded EPA violations, 76% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 24% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (24 of 116), 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)
116 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
Population served record for Dawson Water Works
EPA SDWIS lists 116 people served and 81 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
116 violations · 116 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 Dawson Water Works
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