Community Water System · PWS WI8040131
Iron River Sanitary District
Operator location Iron River, Wisconsin - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 600 people served; 420 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 600
- People served (this PWS)
- 420
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 60
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Iron River Sanitary District standing, high SDWIS violation third
600 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #26,600 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Iron River Sanitary District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (420), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (600; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,600 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #614 of 744
- Population · WI
- 420
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- 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
- 222
- County
- Bayfield
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 59
- Monitoring Violations
- 353
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 59 | 2011 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 15 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 15 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 15 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 2010 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Selenium | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Nitrite | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Nickel | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Chromium | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Cadmium | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Barium | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Arsenic | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Benzene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Styrene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Iron River Sanitary District has 420 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (60 of 420), and it ranks #26,600 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)
420 Higher than most more violations than 94% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Iron River Sanitary District
EPA SDWIS lists 600 people served and 222 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Wisconsin DNR, Drinking Water and Groundwater
Nationwide peers
420 violations · 600 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Iron River Sanitary District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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