Community Water System · PWS IA3073001
Superior Water System
Operator location Superior, Iowa - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 132 people served; 56 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 132
- People served (this PWS)
- 56
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 11
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Superior Water System standing, mid SDWIS violation third
132 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Superior Water System lands in the middle third by violation volume (56), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (132; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 56
- Total EPA violations on record
- 20%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 132
- 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
- 72
- County
- Dickinson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 11
- Monitoring Violations
- 27
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 8 | 1990 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 1996 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 5 | 1986 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2003 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1986 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1986 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1986 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1986 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1986 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1986 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1986 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1986 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Superior Water System has 56 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 56), 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)
56 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% 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 Superior Water System
EPA SDWIS lists 132 people served and 72 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
56 violations · 132 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Superior Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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