Community Water System · PWS IA9464008
Otho Water Supply
Operator location Fort Dodge, Iowa - 32% of 44 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 431 served per SDWIS.
- 431
- People served (this PWS)
- 44
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 14
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Otho Water Supply standing, mid SDWIS violation third
32% of 44 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 32% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Otho Water Supply lands in the middle third by violation volume (44), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (431; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 32% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 44
- Total EPA violations on record
- 32%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 431
- 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
- 225
- County
- Webster
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 14
- Monitoring Violations
- 17
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 14 | 1994 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Otho Water Supply has 44 recorded EPA violations, 53% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 46% carry more. 32% of this system's own violations are health-based (14 of 44), 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)
44 Around the middle fewer violations than 46% 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 Otho Water Supply
14 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IA9464008.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
44 violations · 431 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.
What to do with Otho Water Supply
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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