UNIVERSITY WATER SYSTEM: EPA violation history, explained
UNIVERSITY WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 26,684 people get their water from it, across 95 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
31 total violations and 3 health-based ones put UNIVERSITY WATER SYSTEM at the 62th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,905 of 12,903.
How UNIVERSITY WATER SYSTEM compares within IA
UNIVERSITY WATER SYSTEM's 3 health-based violations sit within the IA average of 3.5, across 203 systems statewide. 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 UNIVERSITY WATER SYSTEM is from 2020-11-02 (health-based: 2017-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
UNIVERSITY WATER SYSTEM'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what UNIVERSITY WATER SYSTEM 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. This record - 3 health-based violations on file for UNIVERSITY WATER SYSTEM - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.