Transient Non-Community · PWSID IA5815801

Papas Paradise Campground

Serves 27 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateFruitland, Iowa
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2015: 61 violations. 3 over the limit · 5 treatment lapses · 25 missed or late tests · 28 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

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

3Over the limit
5Treatment lapse1 open
25Missed or late test
28Notice or report5 open

More violations on record than 99% 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: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32025 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 38% treatment lapse · 541% missed or late test · 2546% notice or report · 28

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (6)

  1. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 2023-08-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2023-04-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-04-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2020-03-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2019-08-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 2023-08-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2023-04-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-04-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2022-09-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2022-04-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  12. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2021-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2021-09-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2021-04-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2021-04-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2021-04-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  20. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2020-09-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2020-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2020-03-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
Show the other 34 entries
  1. 2019-08-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2019-08-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2019-03-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2019-03-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2018-09-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2018-08-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2018-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  15. 2017-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2017-08-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2017-03-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2017-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2016-04-02Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2016-03-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2016-03-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2016-03-09Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  26. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  27. 2015-09-28E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  28. 2015-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  29. 2015-08-30E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  30. 2015-08-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  31. 2015-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  32. 2015-08-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  33. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  34. 2015-04-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served27
Service connections23
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityFruitland
EPA ZIP on file52749

Areas served

  • Wapello, Louisa County

Reading this record

Papas Paradise Campground is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 27 people in Fruitland, 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.