Community Water System · PWSID IA0800923

Woodward Resource Center

Serves 700 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: StateWoodward, 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 2019: 7 violations. 1 over the limit · 5 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 79% 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

2005201020152019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
14% over the limit · 171% missed or late test · 514% notice or report · 1

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

5 ppb
4 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2020-04-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2024-05-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2024-05-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2020-04-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2019-12-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served700
Service connections56
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityWoodward
EPA ZIP on file50276

Areas served

  • Woodward, Boone County

Reading this record

Woodward Resource Center is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 700 people in Woodward, 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.