Community Water System · PWS IA9453071
Lehigh Water Supply
Operator location Fort Dodge, Iowa - 48% of 129 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 395 served per SDWIS.
- 395
- People served (this PWS)
- 129
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 62
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lehigh Water Supply standing, high SDWIS violation third
48% of 129 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 48% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Lehigh Water Supply sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (129), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (395; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 48% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 129
- Total EPA violations on record
- 48%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 395
- 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
- 180
- County
- Webster
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 62
- Monitoring Violations
- 43
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 62 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 13 | 2002 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | Other | 5 | 1986 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2008 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 4 | 1990 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 1985 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2001 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 3 | 1990 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 2 | 1990 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lehigh Water Supply has 129 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 48% of this system's own violations are health-based (62 of 129), 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)
129 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 Lehigh Water Supply
62 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA9453071.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
129 violations · 395 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.
What to do with Lehigh Water Supply
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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