Is IONA WATER DEPT's water safe to drink?
IONA WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,717 people through 1,000 service connections.
IONA WATER DEPT's record against the rest of the country
26 total violations and 9 health-based ones put IONA WATER DEPT at the 83th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,159 of 12,903.
How IONA WATER DEPT compares within ID
ID's 88 covered systems average 10.3 health-based violations each; IONA WATER DEPT carries 9, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for IONA WATER DEPT is from 2015-01-10 (health-based: 2015-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
IONA 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
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 IONA WATER DEPT'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 IONA WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,159th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.