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Community Water System · PWS IA5748086

Lisbon Water Supply

Operator location Lisbon, Iowa - 40% of 75 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,233 served per SDWIS.

2,233
People served (this PWS)
75
EPA violations (this PWS)
30
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lisbon Water Supply standing, high SDWIS violation third

40% of 75 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 40% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,745 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Lisbon Water Supply sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (75), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,233 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 40% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#12,745 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#186 of 545
Population · IA
75
Total EPA violations on record
40%
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
856
County
Linn
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
30
Monitoring Violations
33
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 18 1993
Benzene MCL 9 2007
LASSO MR 6 1995
Xylenes, Total MR 6 1995
Toluene MR 6 1995
Atrazine MR 6 1995
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 5 2005
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2025
Nitrate MCL 3 1998

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lisbon Water Supply has 75 recorded EPA violations, 67% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 33% carry more. 40% of this system's own violations are health-based (30 of 75), and it ranks #12,745 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)

75 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 Lisbon Water Supply

30 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA5748086.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

75 violations · 2,233 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Lisbon 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