CHARITON MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS: EPA violation history, explained
CHARITON MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 4,381 people through 1,994 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CHARITON MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS has 98 violations on record in total, 64 of thems health-based - ranking it 176th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 99th percentile nationally.
How CHARITON MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS compares within IA
Among the 203 IA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - CHARITON MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS's 64 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 CHARITON MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS is from 2018-09-05 (health-based: 2017-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CHARITON MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS'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: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Atrazine
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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
Everything on this page is CHARITON MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and CHARITON MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 176th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.