Public EPA test results
What EPA records show for Ottumwa Water Works
EPA IA9083012 · serves Ottumwa, IA · about 25,529 people (EPA SDWIS)
This report shows EPA's federal records for this water system: UCMR 5 testing, lead testing and violations. It isn't a test of the water at your tap, and it has no Water Score.
Public EPA test results
Ottumwa Water Works (EPA IA9083012)
What EPA records show for Ottumwa Water Works, as of October 14, 2026
We found no health-based violations in EPA's records for this system (IA9083012) since July 1, 2021, as of October 14, 2026.
Source: EPA ECHO record for Ottumwa Water Works (SDWIS). Data as of October 14, 2026.
Lead, 90th percentile: 0.8 ppb at the latest result in EPA records for a monitoring period that ran on or after July 1, 2021, at or below EPA's 15 ppb action level (EPA SDWIS, monitoring period Jan 1, 2023–Dec 31, 2025). The 90th percentile is a system-wide measure from homes sampled under EPA's lead rule; it isn't a result for your home.
EPA's UCMR 5 testing looked for 30 contaminants here and found 1.
PFOA and PFOS were not detected at or above EPA's reporting level in EPA's UCMR 5 testing.
Source: EPA records (SDWIS, UCMR 5). SDWIS: data as of Oct 14, 2026. EPA UCMR 5 data, samples through June 2026.
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Does Ottumwa Water Works use chloramine?
We didn't find chloramine in Ottumwa Water Works's EPA treatment records. That's not a complete list; your utility's annual water quality report says which disinfectant it uses.
What EPA records show for this system
Reported results in EPA records (data as of Oct 14–15, 2026)