Des Moines County, Iowa

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    10

  • Community Water Systems

    8

  • Systems with Violations

    2

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    0

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    5

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    03/12/2024

  • Population Served

    34,868

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    11.11%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    3

  • CWA Total Violations

    12

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    33

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.191%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    38,824

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $58,084

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    4%

  • MALE

    19,118

  • FEMALE

    19,706

  • MEDIAN AGE

    42.1

  • MULTIRACIAL

    37,360

  • WHITE

    33,045

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    2,026

  • LATINO

    1,464

  • ASIAN

    446

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    9

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    1

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this county here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=IA&p_fips=19057 Other .gov state water resources: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/usgs-surface-water-data-for-the-nation-national-water-information-system-nwis Additional state water resources:https://iwqis.iowawis.org/app/