Transient Non-Community · PWSID IA9637201

The Zipper

Serves 35 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateOssian, Iowa
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On record since 2013: 48 violations. 23 missed or late tests · 25 notices or reports. Most recent began 2019-10-21.

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
23Missed or late test
25Notice or report

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

200520102013 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Notice or report: 72017 · Notice or report: 72017 · Notice or report: 72017 · Notice or report: 72018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Notice or report: 220202025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
48% missed or late test · 2352% notice or report · 25

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-10-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2019-02-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2018-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2018-11-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2018-08-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2018-05-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2018-03-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2018-02-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2018-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2017-12-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2017-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2017-10-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2017-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2017-09-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2017-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2017-07-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2017-06-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 22 entries
  1. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2017-05-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2017-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2017-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2016-11-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2016-09-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2016-07-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2016-06-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2016-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-01-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2015-07-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2015-04-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2014-07-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2014-01-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2013-01-22Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served35
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityOssian
EPA ZIP on file52161

Areas served

  • Festina, Winneshiek County

Reading this record

The Zipper is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 35 people in Ossian, 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.