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Community Water System · PWS IA6731006

Moorhead Water Supply

Operator location Moorhead, Iowa - 25% of 136 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 189 served per SDWIS.

189
People served (this PWS)
136
EPA violations (this PWS)
34
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Moorhead Water Supply standing, high SDWIS violation third

25% of 136 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 25% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Moorhead Water Supply sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (136), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (189; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 25% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

136
Total EPA violations on record
25%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
189
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
150
County
Monona
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
34
Monitoring Violations
65
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 22 2010
Nitrate MR 19 2009
Nitrate MCL 12 1986
Coliform (TCR) MR 12 2008
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 9 2023
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 7 2001
Nitrate Other 5 1986
Antimony, Total MR 4 1992
LASSO MR 4 1995
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 4 1995
TTHM MR 4 2023
Chlorine MR 2 2010

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Moorhead Water Supply has 136 recorded EPA violations, 79% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 21% carry more. 25% of this system's own violations are health-based (34 of 136), 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)

136 Higher than most more violations than 79% 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 Moorhead Water Supply

34 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA6731006.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

136 violations · 189 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

What to do with Moorhead 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