Skip to content

City water profile

Water hardness in Altoona

Find official utility reports, understand hardness, and check the water system serving your home in Altoona, Iowa.

Utility-reported hardness

Not yet available

Check your provider and source →
State comparison
Unavailable
Evidence comparison rank
—
Matched utilities
2
Active health records
0

Your tap water

What does the utility report?

Match the utility name to your water bill. These results describe the utility’s water, not a test at your home. A ZIP can include several water systems.

Utility hardness unavailable in this index

Nearby river or groundwater samples cannot tell us the hardness coming out of your tap. Ask your water provider for total hardness as CaCO₃, or test it at home.

Find an official utility report →
Convert a hardness result →Test your tap →

Match the name on your water bill

Your utility’s measurements and compliance records

These are possible serving systems. A record for one system does not apply to every home in this ZIP. Confirm your provider before interpreting a measurement or notice. Federal records can lag current utility notices.

EPA snapshot: 2026Q2. Historical window begins Jan 1, 2021.

Altoona Water Supply

IA7707030 · Groundwater · 19,565 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

Find this utility’s official report →
Measurements (2)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level
Reported level
0.0056 mg/L
Action level
0.015 mg/L

37% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025

Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U

EPA SDWIS reported health-based violation

Reported violation
Reported level
15.65 PCI/L
Maximum contaminant level
15 PCI/L

104% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jul 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024

Violation history (2)
Imported violation history for Altoona Water Supply
RuleStatusPeriod
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UArchivedJul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UHealth-basedArchivedJul 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024

Southeast Polk Rwd

IA7774701 · Surface water · 7,565 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

Find this utility’s official report →
Measurements (1)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level
Reported level
0 mg/L
Action level
0.015 mg/L

0% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2022 to Dec 31, 2024

Violation history (0)

No record returned in this imported window. This is not a guarantee of tap-water safety.

City summary

What the indexed records say

Altoona has 1 published ZIP profile across Polk County. The regional-evidence median is 376 PPM. The city does not meet the stricter comparison standard.

Because only one ZIP is represented, the city median and range are the same local estimate. It should not be read as multiple independent samples across the community.

Hardness distribution

How local ZIP estimates compare

Soft0 ZIPs
Moderately hard0 ZIPs
Hard0 ZIPs
Very hard1 ZIP

1 of 1 ZIP profiles have a hardness estimate. Bars count ZIP profiles, not households or laboratory samples.

Evidence quality

Distance, dates, and confidence

Median nearest distance
14.5 miles
Profiles with evidence
1/1

Confidence labels

High: 0Moderate: 1Low: 0

Observation window: Jun 28, 2017 to Jul 30, 2024.

ZIP directory

Water reports in Altoona

Open a ZIP for site-level provenance and measurements.

ZIP code

50009

Very Hard

376 PPM

Nearest site
14.5 mi
Confidence
Moderate

View full ZIP evidence →

Practical next steps

Move from index to evidence

  1. 1. Open your ZIP. Check distance, dates, confidence, and the associated utility.
  2. 2. Read the current CCR. Confirm source water, detections, limits, ranges, and notices.
  3. 3. Use a measured hardness result. Confirm health concerns or treatment sizing with the right method.

Questions people ask

About water in Altoona

Is the water hard?

Check the utility-reported result above when available. Nearby environmental samples cannot establish tap-water hardness. Ask your provider or test your tap.

Is the tap water safe?

Compliance history is utility-wide and cannot guarantee conditions at every tap. Check current notices and test when address-specific evidence is needed.

Do I need treatment?

Choose treatment only after confirming the problem at the property. A softener targets hardness; contaminant treatment requires a matching, verified performance claim.