Community Water System · PWS IA8403029
Alton Municipal Water Department
Operator location Alton, Iowa - 11% of 62 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,248 served per SDWIS.
- 1,248
- People served (this PWS)
- 62
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 7
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Alton Municipal Water Department standing, mid SDWIS violation third
11% of 62 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #17,502 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Alton Municipal Water Department lands in the middle third by violation volume (62), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,248 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,502 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #286 of 545
- Population · IA
- 62
- Total EPA violations on record
- 11%
- 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
- 515
- County
- Sioux
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 41
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 2001 |
| Mercury | MR | 5 | 1988 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Fluoride | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2003 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 1990 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Alton Municipal Water Department has 62 recorded EPA violations, 62% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 62), and it ranks #17,502 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)
62 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% 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 Alton Municipal Water Department
7 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA8403029.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
62 violations · 1,248 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 Alton Municipal Water Department
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