Is POWESHIEK WATER ASSOCIATION's water safe to drink?

POWESHIEK WATER ASSOCIATION has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 13,920 people through 5,568 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

8 total violations and 7 health-based ones put POWESHIEK WATER ASSOCIATION at the 78th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,875 of 12,903.

Against the IA average

Among the 203 IA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - POWESHIEK WATER ASSOCIATION's 7 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

POWESHIEK WATER ASSOCIATION's most recent violation on record is dated 2002-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2002-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.

The concern categories on record

POWESHIEK WATER ASSOCIATION'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 POWESHIEK WATER ASSOCIATION's record does not cover

This is what POWESHIEK WATER ASSOCIATION 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 POWESHIEK WATER ASSOCIATION's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,875th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.