Transient Non-Community · PWSID IA1535901

Hitchcock House

Serves 216 peopleGroundwaterOwner: StateLewis, 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 2015: 23 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 12 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-05-28.

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

2Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
12Missed or late test
8Notice 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 420152016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
9% over the limit · 24% treatment lapse · 152% missed or late test · 1235% notice or report · 8

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-05-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-05-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2022-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-06-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2021-06-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2021-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2018-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2018-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2017-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2017-05-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2017-05-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2016-05-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  20. 2015-05-26Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2015-05-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served216
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityLewis
EPA ZIP on file51555

Areas served

  • Lewis, Cass County

Reading this record

Hitchcock House is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 216 people in Lewis, 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.