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Community Water System · PWS IA2813019

Delaware Municipal Water Supply

Operator location Oelwein, Iowa - 0% of 74 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 142 served per SDWIS.

142
People served (this PWS)
74
EPA violations (this PWS)
0
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Delaware Municipal Water Supply standing, mid SDWIS violation third

0% of 74 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%).

The verdict

Delaware Municipal Water Supply lands in the middle third by violation volume (74), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (142; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

74
Total EPA violations on record
0%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
142
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
42
County
Delaware
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
52
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 4 2009
Barium MR 4 1999
Mercury MR 4 1999
Antimony, Total MR 4 1999
Thallium, Total MR 4 1999
Selenium MR 4 1999
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2018
Cadmium MR 4 1999
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 4 2008
Arsenic MR 4 1999
Chromium MR 4 1999
Fluoride MR 4 1999
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 1995

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Delaware Municipal Water Supply has 74 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 33% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 74), 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)

74 Around the middle fewer violations than 33% 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 Delaware Municipal Water Supply

0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA2813019.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

74 violations · 142 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Delaware Municipal 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