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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IA5847537

Louisa-Muscatine Community School

Operator location Letts, Iowa - 42% of 166 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,190 served per SDWIS.

1,190
People served (this PWS)
166
EPA violations (this PWS)
70
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Louisa-Muscatine Community School standing, high SDWIS violation third

42% of 166 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 42% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #18,018 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Louisa-Muscatine Community School sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (166), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,190 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 42% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#18,018 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#294 of 545
Population · IA
166
Total EPA violations on record
42%
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Public/Private
Connections
1
County
Louisa
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
70
Monitoring Violations
88
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 84 2011
Coliform (TCR) MCL 70 2005
Chlorine MR 4 2005

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Louisa-Muscatine Community School has 166 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 42% of this system's own violations are health-based (70 of 166), and it ranks #18,018 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)

166 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 Louisa-Muscatine Community School

70 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA5847537.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

166 violations · 1,190 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 Louisa-Muscatine Community School

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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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