CARTER LAKE WATER DISTRICT: EPA violation history, explained
CARTER LAKE WATER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 3,791, over 1,306 connections.
How this compares nationally
19 total violations and 6 health-based ones put CARTER LAKE WATER DISTRICT at the 76th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,119 of 12,903.
How CARTER LAKE WATER DISTRICT compares within IA
Among the 203 IA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - CARTER LAKE WATER DISTRICT's 6 is above 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 CARTER LAKE WATER DISTRICT is from 2023-10-05 (health-based: 2011-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CARTER LAKE WATER DISTRICT'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
CARTER LAKE WATER DISTRICT'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. Between the utility's meter and CARTER LAKE WATER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,119th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.