Transient Non-Community · PWSID IA7838715

Dot-4 (I-680 Ra 023s Loveland)

Serves 175 peopleGroundwaterOwner: StateAmes, Iowa
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On record since 2015: 4 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2020-09-01.

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

1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 65% 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

200520102015 · Over the limit: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152019 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 150% treatment lapse · 225% notice or report · 1

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  2. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  3. 2015-08-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served175
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityAmes
EPA ZIP on file50010

Areas served

  • Loveland, Pottawattamie County

Reading this record

Dot-4 (I-680 Ra 023s Loveland) is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 175 people in Ames, 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.