Community Water System · PWS IA5493016
What Cheer Water Supply
Operator location Sigourney, Iowa - 56% of 39 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 607 served per SDWIS.
- 607
- People served (this PWS)
- 39
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 22
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
What Cheer Water Supply standing, mid SDWIS violation third
56% of 39 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 56% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #26,002 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
What Cheer Water Supply lands in the middle third by violation volume (39), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (607; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 56% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,002 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #494 of 545
- Population · IA
- 39
- Total EPA violations on record
- 56%
- 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
- 379
- County
- Keokuk
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 22
- Monitoring Violations
- 8
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 17 | 1985 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 1993 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 5 | 1985 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
What Cheer Water Supply has 39 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 50% carry more. 56% of this system's own violations are health-based (22 of 39), and it ranks #26,002 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)
39 Lower than most fewer violations than 50% 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 What Cheer Water Supply
22 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA5493016.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
39 violations · 607 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 What Cheer Water Supply
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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