Community Water System · PWSID IA0721014

Elk Run Heights Water Supply

Serves 1,069 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentElk Run Heights, Iowa
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On record since 2006: 2 violations. 1 missed or late test · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2015-12-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 43% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Missed or late test: 1201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% missed or late test · 150% notice or report · 1

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3.7 ppb
3.5 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  2. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,069
Service connections485
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityElk Run Heights
EPA ZIP on file50707

Areas served

  • Elk Run Heights, Black Hawk County

Reading this record

Elk Run Heights Water Supply is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 1,069 people in Elk Run Heights, 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.