Community Water System · PWS IA3730098
Grand Jct Municipal Water Dept
Operator location Grand Junction, Iowa - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 725 people served; 22 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 725
- People served (this PWS)
- 22
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Grand Jct Municipal Water Dept standing, mid SDWIS violation third
725 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 9% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #23,848 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Grand Jct Municipal Water Dept lands in the middle third by violation volume (22), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (725; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 9% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #23,848 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #439 of 545
- Population · IA
- 22
- Total EPA violations on record
- 9%
- 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
- 347
- County
- Greene
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 13
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 1999 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2023 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 2 | 1980 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1982 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Grand Jct Municipal Water Dept has 22 recorded EPA violations, 34% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 65% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 22), and it ranks #23,848 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)
22 Lower than most fewer violations than 65% 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 Grand Jct Municipal Water Dept
EPA SDWIS lists 725 people served and 347 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
22 violations · 725 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Grand Jct Municipal Water Dept
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