Is CENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS's water safe to drink?
CENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 5,344, over 2,832 connections.
CENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS's record against the rest of the country
CENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS has 14 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,156th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 60th percentile nationally.
How CENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS compares within IA
IA's 203 covered systems average 3.5 health-based violations each; CENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS carries 3, not more than typical for the state. 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 CENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS is from 2002-01-06 (health-based: 1993-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS'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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Surface Water Treatment Rule
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what CENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and CENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL WATERWORKS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,156th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.