Community Water System · PWSID IA1449053

Lanesboro Water Works

Serves 119 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentFort Dodge, 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 2002: 11 violations. 8 over the limit · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-08-12.

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

8Over the limit

0Treatment lapse

0Missed or late test

3Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 87% 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

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

73% over the limit · 827% notice or report · 3

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4 ppb

2 ppb

1 ppb

0 ppb

Open now (1)

2024-08-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

2024-08-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
2024-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0150 MG/LBack in compliance
2024-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0170 MG/LBack in compliance
2024-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0180 MG/LBack in compliance
2023-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0160 MG/LBack in compliance
2023-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0125 MG/LBack in compliance
2023-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2022-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/LBack in compliance
2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2020-04-01ArsenicMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.0130 MG/LBack in compliance
2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served	119
Service connections	70
Water source	Groundwater Purchased
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Fort Dodge
EPA ZIP on file	50501

Areas served

Lanesboro, Carroll County

Reading this record

Lanesboro Water Works is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 119 people in Fort Dodge, 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.