Community Water System · PWS UTAH11085
Central Iron County Wcd
Operator location Cedar City, Utah - 25% of 36 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 3,995 served per SDWIS.
- 3,995
- People served (this PWS)
- 36
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Central Iron County Wcd standing, mid SDWIS violation third
25% of 36 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 25% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #8,888 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Central Iron County Wcd lands in the middle third by violation volume (36), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (3,995; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 25% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #8,888 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #118 of 321
- Population · UT
- 36
- Total EPA violations on record
- 25%
- 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
- 733
- County
- Iron
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 27
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 9 | 2022 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 2009 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 3 | 2011 |
| E. COLI | MR | 3 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2017 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Central Iron County Wcd has 36 recorded EPA violations, 47% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 52% carry more. 25% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 36), and it ranks #8,888 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)
36 Lower than most fewer violations than 52% 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 Central Iron County Wcd
9 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for UTAH11085.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
36 violations · 3,995 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.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Central Iron County Wcd
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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