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Shelby County, IA drinking water systems

8 community water systems serve Shelby County, IA, reporting 7,802 people served in all.

None of them had a health-based violation in the last 10 years.

7 rely mainly on groundwater and 1 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 29 lead lines, 38 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 590 lines of unknown material.

1 more system is placed in Shelby 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
8
People served, sum of each system's own figure
7,802
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
0
Systems with one unresolved
0
Lead service lines in inventories
29

Water systems serving Shelby County

8 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
Harlan Municipal Utilities Harlan 5,067 Groundwater 0 0 0
Shelby Water Supply Shelby 727 Groundwater 0 0 0
Elk Horn Muni Water Works Elk Horn 631 Groundwater 0 0 0
Earling Water Supply Earling 397 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
Irwin Municipal Supply Irwin 313 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
Defiance Water Department Defiance 250 Groundwater 0 0 0
Panama Water Works Panama 235 Purchased groundwater 0 0 29
Portsmouth Water Supply Portsmouth 182 Purchased surface water 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Shelby County

1 system

The service area map EPA has for this system does not line up with its own records. 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
Regional Water County on record 4,132 Purchased surface water 1 0 1

Cities and towns in Shelby County

7 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