Polk County, Iowa

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    29

  • Community Water Systems

    27

  • Systems with Violations

    3

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    2

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    39

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    09/08/2022

  • Population Served

    468,895

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    8.33%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    6

  • CWA Total Violations

    15

The American Community Survey

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

    636

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.32%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    493,378

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $78,827

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

    3.4%

  • MALE

    245,241

  • FEMALE

    248,137

  • MEDIAN AGE

    36.1

  • MULTIRACIAL

    449,436

  • WHITE

    372,677

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    35,214

  • LATINO

    43,942

  • ASIAN

    24,325

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    502

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    44

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=19153 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/