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Community Water System · PWS IA9176019

Saint Marys Water Corporation

Operator location Saint Charles, Iowa - 45% of 125 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 121 served per SDWIS.

121
People served (this PWS)
125
EPA violations (this PWS)
56
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Saint Marys Water Corporation standing, high SDWIS violation third

45% of 125 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 45% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Saint Marys Water Corporation sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (125), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (121; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 45% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

125
Total EPA violations on record
45%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
121
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

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
69
County
Warren
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
56
Monitoring Violations
62
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 24 1991
Carbon tetrachloride MR 24 1994
TTHM MCL 20 2008
Nitrate MR 20 1995
Coliform (TCR) MR 13 2000
Nitrate MCL 12 1995
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 5 2018
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 3 1999

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Saint Marys Water Corporation has 125 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 45% of this system's own violations are health-based (56 of 125), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

125 Higher than most more violations than 78% 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 Saint Marys Water Corporation

56 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA9176019.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

125 violations · 121 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.

4 peers

What to do with Saint Marys Water Corporation

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
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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.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater