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Osceola Rural Water System-South, IA Water Quality

Osceola Rural Water System-South: EPA violation history, explained

Past violation
2 health-based violations

Osceola Rural Water System-South has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,112 people through 845 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, Osceola Rural Water System-South ranks 6,902th by violation burden (47th percentile) - 5 violations total, 2 health-based.

Against the IA average

Among the 203 IA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - Osceola Rural Water System-South's 2 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

Osceola Rural Water System-South's most recent violation on record is dated 2017-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 1995-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.

The concern categories on record

Osceola Rural Water System-South'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:

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 Osceola Rural Water System-South's record does not cover

Everything on this page is Osceola Rural Water System-South'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 Osceola Rural Water System-South's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,902th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.