Is BELLE PLAINE WATER DEPT's water safe to drink?
BELLE PLAINE WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,380, over 1,297 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, BELLE PLAINE WATER DEPT ranks 6,551th by violation burden (49th percentile) - 10 violations total, 2 health-baseds.
How BELLE PLAINE WATER DEPT compares within IA
Among the 203 IA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - BELLE PLAINE WATER DEPT's 2 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BELLE PLAINE WATER DEPT is from 2021-02-11 (health-based: 1995-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BELLE PLAINE WATER DEPT's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
BELLE PLAINE WATER DEPT's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for BELLE PLAINE WATER DEPT - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.