Community Water System · PWS IA3900301
Lake Panorama Water Company
Operator location Panora, Iowa - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 180 EPA violations; groundwater source; 2,900 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,900
- People served (this PWS)
- 180
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 23
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lake Panorama Water Company standing, high SDWIS violation third
180 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 #10,896 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Lake Panorama Water Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (180), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,900 (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.
- #10,896 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #151 of 545
- Population · IA
- 180
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 1,160
- County
- Guthrie
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 23
- Monitoring Violations
- 150
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 39 | 1991 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 34 | 1991 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 32 | 1991 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 31 | 1991 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 13 | 1985 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 6 | 1984 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 1993 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 4 | 1998 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1980 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lake Panorama Water Company has 180 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (23 of 180), and it ranks #10,896 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)
180 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Lake Panorama Water Company
180 violations on record for IA3900301; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
180 violations · 2,900 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 Lake Panorama Water Company
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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