Transient Non-Community · PWSID IA2232776

Anchor Inn (Garber)

Serves 35 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateGarber, Iowa
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2014: 43 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 21 missed or late tests · 21 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-22.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
21Missed or late test
21Notice or report4 open

More violations on record than 98% of active water systems in Iowa. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102014 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Missed or late test: 102022 · Missed or late test: 102022 · Missed or late test: 102022 · Missed or late test: 102022 · Missed or late test: 102022 · Notice or report: 52022 · Notice or report: 52022 · Notice or report: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Notice or report: 82023 · Notice or report: 82023 · Notice or report: 82023 · Notice or report: 82024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% treatment lapse · 149% missed or late test · 2149% notice or report · 21

Across Iowa, 63% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (5)

  1. 2025-09-22Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-07-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  4. 2014-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-22Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-07-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-05-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  6. 2024-08-27Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2024-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-02-24Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2023-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2023-08-21Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2023-06-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2023-04-23Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2023-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2023-03-24Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2023-02-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2022-12-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2022-11-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2022-11-06E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  24. 2022-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2022-10-24Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 11 entries
  1. 2022-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2022-08-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-07-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2022-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-06-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2017-08-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2017-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2014-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served35
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityGarber
EPA ZIP on file52048

Areas served

  • Garber, Clayton County

Reading this record

Anchor Inn (Garber) is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 35 people in Garber, Iowa. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.