Public water system record
What Cheer Water Supply
Serves What Cheer, Keokuk County, IA · 646 people served
Federal records show no health-based violations and no monitoring or reporting issues for What Cheer Water Supply in the last ten years.
System profile
- Health-based violations, last 10 years
- 0
- Resolved
- 0
- Unresolved
- 0
- Any acute record
- No
- Monitoring issues, last 10 years
- 0
Key facts
- What Cheer Water Supply buys its water from Wapello Rural Water Assoc.
- Most recent formal enforcement: signed compliance agreement by Iowa, September 1986.
- Record on file since 1979, with 7 health-based violations before October 19, 2016.
- Lead pipe inventory: 4 lead and 281 unknown out of 321 service lines.
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Health-based violations
Since October 2016Violation data reflects EPA records through March 2026. For the most current status, visit the EPA ECHO database.
None since October 2016, and no monitoring or reporting violations either.
Full record since 1979
EPA's records for What Cheer Water Supply go back to 1979. Before October 19, 2016 they list 7 health-based violations (1 resolved, 6 archived by EPA without a recorded fix) and 2 monitoring or reporting violations.
| Violations that began in | Health-based | Monitoring and reporting |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1 | 0 |
| 1980s | 6 | 0 |
| 1990s | 0 | 1 |
| 2000s | 0 | 1 |
Most recent health-based violation before October 19, 2016: Combined Radium (-226 and -228), began October 1985, Archived.
Show all 7 health-based violations before October 19, 2016
| Contaminant | Start date | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
Contaminant limit exceeded
|
Oct 1, 1985 | Archived |
|
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
Contaminant limit exceeded
|
Oct 1, 1985 | Archived |
|
Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
Contaminant limit exceeded
|
Oct 1, 1984 | Archived |
|
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
Contaminant limit exceeded
|
Oct 1, 1983 | Archived |
|
Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
Contaminant limit exceeded
|
Oct 1, 1983 | Archived |
|
Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
Contaminant limit exceeded
|
Oct 1, 1981 | Archived |
|
Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
Contaminant limit exceeded
|
Jan 1, 1979 | Resolved |
Enforcement actions
Iowa regulators took 2 formal enforcement actions against What Cheer Water Supply between 1985 and 1986, filed as 3 records in EPA's data. The most recent was a signed compliance agreement in September 1986.
| Date | By | Action | Violations covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 1986 | Iowa | Signed compliance agreement | 2 violations (2 health-based): Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U, Combined Radium (-226 and -228) |
| May 2, 1985 | Iowa | Signed compliance agreement | 2 violations (2 health-based): Combined Radium (-226 and -228) |
Where the water comes from
What Cheer Water Supply buys its water from Wapello Rural Water Assoc. It lists no wells or intakes of its own.
Buys water from
- Wapello Rural Water Assoc. Ottumwa, IA
Annual water quality report
What Cheer Water Supply must give its customers an annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report) by July 1, with the levels its tests found in the previous year.
Where the state allows it, systems serving fewer than 10,000 people may publish the report in a local newspaper or news site instead of mailing it, and must provide a copy on request.
Find a posted report with EPA's Consumer Confidence Report search
Testing your own water
To test the water at your tap, or a private well this record does not cover, use a laboratory certified for drinking water by Iowa.
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