Community Water System · PWS IA9276096
Wellman Municipal Waterworks
Operator location Wellman, Iowa - 59% of 222 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,524 served per SDWIS.
- 1,524
- People served (this PWS)
- 222
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 131
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Wellman Municipal Waterworks standing, high SDWIS violation third
59% of 222 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 59% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,727 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Wellman Municipal Waterworks sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (222), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,524 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 59% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,727 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #252 of 545
- Population · IA
- 222
- Total EPA violations on record
- 59%
- 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
- 654
- County
- Washington
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 131
- Monitoring Violations
- 66
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrite | MCL | 79 | 2014 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 36 | 1997 |
| Nitrite | MR | 30 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 17 | 2011 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 16 | 1997 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | Other | 11 | 1982 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 10 | 1989 |
| Public Notice | Other | 10 | 2020 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 2018 |
| Chlorine | MR | 2 | 2006 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Wellman Municipal Waterworks has 222 recorded EPA violations, 87% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 13% carry more. 59% of this system's own violations are health-based (131 of 222), and it ranks #15,727 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)
222 Higher than most more violations than 87% 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 Wellman Municipal Waterworks
131 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA9276096.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
222 violations · 1,524 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 Wellman Municipal Waterworks
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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