City and town drinking water records

Water systems serving Des Moines, IA

1 community water system has a mapped service area in Des Moines, IA. Des Moines Water Works covers 93% of the area inside Des Moines's Census boundary and reports serving 246,055 people in all.

It had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years, and none is still unresolved.

Its lead service line inventory lists 8,114 lead lines, 10 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 45,950 lines of unknown material.

9 more systems are placed in Des Moines by EPA's town record because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems

1

Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years

1

Systems with one unresolved

0

Lead service lines in inventories

8,114

Water systems serving Des Moines

1 system

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System	Area	People served	Main source	Health-based violations, 10 years	Unresolved	Lead lines
Des Moines Water Works	Covers 93% of Des Moines	246,055	Purchased surface water	1	0	8,114

Systems placed by EPA's town record in Des Moines

9 systems

EPA has no service area map for some of these systems, and the maps it has for the others do not line up with their own records. They are placed by EPA's town record (EPA lists them serving this town), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System	Area	People served	Main source	Health-based violations, 10 years	Unresolved	Lead lines
Yes Regency Manor LLC	Town on record	710	Purchased surface water	0	0	No inventory
The Meadows	Town on record	702	Purchased surface water	0	0	No inventory
Southridge Estate	Town on record	648	Purchased surface water	0	0	0
Val Vista Estates	Town on record	553	Purchased surface water	0	0	0
Ewing Trace MHC	Town on record	455	Purchased surface water	0	0	0
Stover Heights MHC	Town on record	393	Purchased surface water	0	0	0
Hillock Estates	Town on record	228	Purchased surface water	0	0	0
Southland MHP Community	Town on record	135	Purchased surface water	0	0	No inventory
Ciww (DMWW)	Town on record	25	Surface water	0	0	0

Other cities and towns in Polk County

18 places

• Alleman
• Altoona
• Ankeny
• Bondurant
• Carlisle
• Clive
• Elkhart
• Grimes
• Johnston
• Mitchellville
• Pleasant Hill
• Polk City
• Runnells
• Saylorville
• Sheldahl
• Urbandale
• West Des Moines
• Windsor Heights

Back to Polk County, IA

Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations