Community Water System · PWS IA7568079
Remsen Municipal Utilities
Operator location Remsen, Iowa - 5% of 40 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,678 served per SDWIS.
- 1,678
- People served (this PWS)
- 40
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Remsen Municipal Utilities standing, mid SDWIS violation third
5% of 40 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,011 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Remsen Municipal Utilities lands in the middle third by violation volume (40), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,678 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,011 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #232 of 545
- Population · IA
- 40
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- 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
- 696
- County
- Plymouth
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 32
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 11 | 1994 |
| Atrazine | MR | 8 | 1997 |
| Nitrate | MR | 7 | 2021 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 2 | 1980 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Remsen Municipal Utilities has 40 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 49% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 40), and it ranks #15,011 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)
40 Around the middle fewer violations than 49% 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 Remsen Municipal Utilities
2 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA7568079.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
40 violations · 1,678 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Remsen Municipal Utilities
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