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Community Water System · PWS IA7329501

Clarinda Treatment Complex

Operator location Clarinda, Iowa - 40% of 101 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,439 served per SDWIS.

1,439
People served (this PWS)
101
EPA violations (this PWS)
40
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Clarinda Treatment Complex standing, high SDWIS violation third

40% of 101 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 #16,346 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Clarinda Treatment Complex sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (101), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,439 (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.

#16,346 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#260 of 545
Population · IA
101
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
State
Connections
12
County
Page
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
40
Monitoring Violations
56
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MCL 33 2015
Coliform (TCR) MR 28 2013
Nitrate MR 17 2025
Coliform (TCR) MCL 7 1997
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2025
Arsenic MR 1 1980
Selenium MR 1 1980
Cadmium MR 1 1980
Mercury MR 1 1980
Chromium MR 1 1980
Fluoride MR 1 1980
Barium MR 1 1980

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Clarinda Treatment Complex has 101 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 26% carry more. 40% of this system's own violations are health-based (40 of 101), and it ranks #16,346 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)

101 Around the middle fewer violations than 26% 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 Clarinda Treatment Complex

40 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA7329501.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

101 violations · 1,439 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 Clarinda Treatment Complex

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