City and town drinking water records

Water systems serving Polk City, IA

2 community water systems have a mapped service area in Polk City, IA. Des Moines Water Works covers 74% of the area inside Polk City's Census boundary and reports serving 246,055 people in all.

1 of them had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. None of those systems has one still unresolved.

2 rely mainly on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 8,114 lead lines, 10 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 45,950 lines of unknown material.

1 more system is placed in Polk City by EPA's town record 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: 2
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 Polk City

2 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	Area	People served	Main source	Health-based violations, 10 years	Unresolved	Lead lines
Des Moines Water Works	Covers 74% of Polk City	246,055	Purchased surface water	1	0	8,114
Polk City Water Supply	Covers 41% of Polk City	6,533	Purchased surface water	0	0	0

Systems placed by EPA's town record in Polk City

1 system

EPA has no service area map for this system. It is placed by EPA's town record (EPA lists it serving this town), and without a map it is not counted in the figures above.

System	Area	People served	Main source	Health-based violations, 10 years	Unresolved	Lead lines
Ciww ( Polk City)	Town on record	25	Purchased surface water	0	0	0

Other cities and towns in Polk County

18 places

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