Howard County, Iowa

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    20

  • Community Water Systems

    5

  • Systems with Violations

    1

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    1

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    21

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    12/08/2020

  • Population Served

    6,486

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    16.67%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    2

  • CWA Total Violations

    6

The American Community Survey

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

    51

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    1.4%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    9,479

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $63,947

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

    1.3%

  • MALE

    4,787

  • FEMALE

    4,692

  • MEDIAN AGE

    39.5

  • MULTIRACIAL

    9,308

  • WHITE

    9,019

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    16

  • LATINO

    171

  • ASIAN

    30

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    12

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    7

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=19089 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/