Community Water System · PWS IA6403011
Albion Water Department
Operator location Newton, Iowa - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 448 people served; 114 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 448
- People served (this PWS)
- 114
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Albion Water Department standing, high SDWIS violation third
448 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Albion Water Department sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (114), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (448; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 114
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 448
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
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
- 200
- County
- Marshall
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 75
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 22 | 2001 |
| LASSO | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Picloram | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Diquat | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2018 |
| Simazine | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2018 |
| Atrazine | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 3 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1987 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Albion Water Department has 114 recorded EPA violations, 76% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 24% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 114), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
114 Higher than most more violations than 76% 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 Albion Water Department
EPA SDWIS lists 448 people served and 200 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
114 violations · 448 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.
What to do with Albion Water Department
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