Transient Non-Community · PWSID IA3544720

Gold Key Motel

Serves 58 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHampton, Iowa
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On record since 2022: 12 violations. 9 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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
9Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 89% 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

20052010201520202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
75% missed or late test · 925% notice or report · 3

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2024-01-01Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  10. 2023-07-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2022-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file

System details

Population served58
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHampton
EPA ZIP on file50441

Areas served

  • Hampton, Franklin County

Reading this record

Gold Key Motel is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 58 people in Hampton, 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.