Transient Non-Community · PWSID IA7016202

Deese Thirsty Camel

Serves 67 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateColumbus JCT, Iowa
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2016: 22 violations. 7 over the limit · 8 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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

7Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
7Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 95% 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

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Over the limit: 12019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
32% over the limit · 736% missed or late test · 832% notice or report · 7

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-03-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-05-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2024-03-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2024-03-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2023-12-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2023-11-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2022-11-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2022-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2022-04-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2021-12-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2021-11-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2021-10-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2021-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2021-09-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2019-02-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2019-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2018-09-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served67
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityColumbus JCT
EPA ZIP on file52738

Areas served

  • Conesville, Louisa County

Reading this record

Deese Thirsty Camel is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 67 people in Columbus JCT, 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.