Community Water System · PWS IA7548072
Merrill Municipal Water Supply
Operator location Merrill, Iowa - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 717 people served; 291 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 717
- People served (this PWS)
- 291
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Merrill Municipal Water Supply standing, high SDWIS violation third
717 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%). Population rank #24,005 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Merrill Municipal Water Supply sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (291), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (717; 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.
- #24,005 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #447 of 545
- Population · IA
- 291
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- 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
- 360
- County
- Plymouth
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 268
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 18 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2004 |
| Arsenic | MR | 13 | 2013 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| Cadmium | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| Chromium | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| Fluoride | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| Selenium | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| Barium | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| Mercury | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 6 | 1987 |
| LASSO | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Atrazine | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Dalapon | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Picloram | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Benzene | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Toluene | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 1995 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Merrill Municipal Water Supply has 291 recorded EPA violations, 90% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 9% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 291), and it ranks #24,005 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)
291 Higher than most more violations than 90% 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 Merrill Municipal Water Supply
EPA SDWIS lists 717 people served and 360 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
291 violations · 717 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 Merrill Municipal Water Supply
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