Community Water System · PWS IA7349023
Essex Water Supply
Operator location Essex, Iowa - 43% of 154 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 722 served per SDWIS.
- 722
- People served (this PWS)
- 154
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 66
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Essex Water Supply standing, high SDWIS violation third
43% of 154 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 43% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #23,912 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Essex Water Supply sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (154), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (722; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 43% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #23,912 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #443 of 545
- Population · IA
- 154
- Total EPA violations on record
- 43%
- 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
- 350
- County
- Page
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 66
- Monitoring Violations
- 62
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MCL | 62 | 1996 |
| Nitrate | MR | 54 | 1994 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2019 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 1996 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Essex Water Supply has 154 recorded EPA violations, 81% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 18% carry more. 43% of this system's own violations are health-based (66 of 154), and it ranks #23,912 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)
154 Higher than most more violations than 81% 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 Essex Water Supply
66 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA7349023.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
154 violations · 722 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Essex 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
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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.