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Palo Alto County, IA drinking water systems

6 community water systems serve Palo Alto County, IA, reporting 6,469 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

1 of them had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 1 system still has one unresolved.

6 rely mainly on groundwater, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 34 lead lines, 67 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 365 lines of unknown material.

1 more system is placed in Palo Alto County, IA by the county its records name because it has no service area map that lines up with its own records, so it is listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
6
People served, sum of each system's own figure
6,469
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
1
Systems with one unresolved
1
Lead service lines in inventories
34

Water systems serving Palo Alto County

6 systems

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

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Emmetsburg Municipal Water Department Emmetsburg 3,733 Groundwater 0 0 24
Graettinger Municipal Water Supply Graettinger 897 Groundwater 0 0 0
Ruthven Water Supply Ruthven and land outside it 779 Groundwater 0 0 9
West Bend Water Department West Bend 772 Groundwater 0 0 0
Mallard Water Supply Mallard 257 Purchased groundwater 18 0 1
Rodman Water System Rodman 31 Groundwater 0 1 0

Systems placed by county record in Palo Alto County

1 system

EPA has no service area map for this system. It is placed by the county its records name (the counties EPA lists it serving, or the county coded in its ID where EPA lists none), and without a map it is not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Iowa Lakes Regional Water - Osgood County on record 9,021 Purchased surface water 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Palo Alto County

6 places

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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