Community Water System · PWS IA2740050
Lamoni Municipal Utilities
Operator location Lamoni, Iowa - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 154 EPA violations; surface water source; 2,104 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,104
- People served (this PWS)
- 154
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 20
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lamoni Municipal Utilities standing, high SDWIS violation third
154 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,144 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Lamoni Municipal Utilities sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (154), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,104 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,144 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #191 of 545
- Population · IA
- 154
- Total EPA violations on record
- 13%
- 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
- 876
- County
- Decatur
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 107
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 15
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 15 | 2025 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 12 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MR | 9 | 2024 |
| Arsenic | MR | 8 | 1991 |
| Barium | MR | 8 | 1991 |
| Cadmium | MR | 8 | 1991 |
| Selenium | MR | 8 | 1991 |
| Chlorite | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Chromium | MR | 8 | 1991 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 1992 |
| Mercury | MR | 8 | 1991 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 1990 |
| TTHM | MCL | 5 | 2011 |
| Nitrite | MR | 4 | 2018 |
| Chlorine dioxide | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2022 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 2 | 2016 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lamoni Municipal Utilities has 154 recorded EPA violations, 81% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 18% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 154), and it ranks #13,144 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)
154 Higher than most more violations than 81% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Lamoni Municipal Utilities
154 violations on record for IA2740050; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
154 violations · 2,104 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Lamoni Municipal Utilities
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