WAUKEE WATER SUPPLY: EPA violation history, explained
WAUKEE WATER SUPPLY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 31,823, over 14,500 connections.
How this compares nationally
WAUKEE WATER SUPPLY has 26 violations on record in total, 13 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,474th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 89th percentile nationally.
How WAUKEE WATER SUPPLY compares within IA
Among the 203 IA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - WAUKEE WATER SUPPLY's 13 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 WAUKEE WATER SUPPLY is from 2013-01-01 (health-based: 2013-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WAUKEE WATER SUPPLY'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)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228); Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Fluoride
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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
WAUKEE WATER SUPPLY's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 13 health-based violations on file for WAUKEE WATER SUPPLY - 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.