Community Water System · PWS IA8709096
Bedford Water Works
Operator location Bedford, Iowa - 38% of 214 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,508 served per SDWIS.
- 1,508
- People served (this PWS)
- 214
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 82
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bedford Water Works standing, high SDWIS violation third
38% of 214 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 38% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,813 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bedford Water Works sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (214), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,508 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 38% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,813 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #253 of 545
- Population · IA
- 214
- Total EPA violations on record
- 38%
- 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
- 800
- County
- Taylor
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 82
- Monitoring Violations
- 103
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 66 | 2003 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 16 | 2008 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 13 | 2019 |
| Nitrate | MR | 10 | 1990 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 2014 |
| Barium | MR | 9 | 1990 |
| Cadmium | MR | 9 | 1990 |
| Chromium | MR | 9 | 1990 |
| Mercury | MR | 9 | 1990 |
| Arsenic | MR | 9 | 1990 |
| Fluoride | MR | 9 | 1990 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 7 | 2018 |
| Nitrite | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 4 | 1994 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 1990 |
| Atrazine | MR | 4 | 1995 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bedford Water Works has 214 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 38% of this system's own violations are health-based (82 of 214), and it ranks #15,813 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)
214 Higher than most more violations than 86% 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 Bedford Water Works
82 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA8709096.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
214 violations · 1,508 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bedford Water Works
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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