Kind Water Co installs water softeners, reverse osmosis systems, and whole-home filtration in Bellevue, Iowa. Bellevue Municipal Utilities runs a groundwater system with finished-water taps at Well #3 and Well #4, and its 2025 water quality report lists sodium at just 4.75 to 5.2 ppm — the signature of water that has not been municipally softened.
| Quick fact | Details |
|---|---|
| Utility | Bellevue Municipal Utilities (PWSID 4910000) |
| Water source | Groundwater, with finished-water sampling taps at Well #3 and Well #4, per the 2025 water quality report |
| Softened at the plant? | Nothing in the report describes a softening process, and finished-water sodium of 4.75–5.2 ppm is consistent with an unsoftened supply — ion-exchange softening leaves sodium behind, and Bellevue's is very low |
| One distinguishing fact | The 2025 report quantifies naturally occurring radium at each well: combined radium 1.58 pCi/L at Well #3 and 2.94 pCi/L at Well #4, both under the 5 pCi/L limit. Barium is about 0.11 ppm and fluoride 0.7 ppm |
Bellevue's report is unusually specific for a town of its size: it names the wells, reports each one separately, and publishes four years of results. The city's Water Department page posts the 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 reports, with hard copies available on request.
The detail that tells you the most is the one nobody thinks to look at — sodium. Ion-exchange softening works by trading calcium and magnesium for sodium, so a municipally softened supply almost always shows elevated sodium in the finished water. Bellevue's is 4.75 to 5.2 ppm, which is very low. Combined with the absence of any softening description in the report, that points to hard groundwater arriving at your tap exactly as the aquifer made it.
Bellevue does not publish a hardness figure, so we will not invent one. For scale, the U.S. Geological Survey calls water above 180 mg/L "very hard," and one grain per gallon equals 17.1 mg/L. Ten minutes with a test kit at your kitchen sink turns that from a guess into a number.
The report's radium results are the other thing homeowners ask about: 1.58 pCi/L at Well #3 and 2.94 pCi/L at Well #4, against a 5 pCi/L limit, from erosion of natural deposits. Those are the city's measurements and they are below the limit — we are repeating the document, not interpreting it.
Spotting on dishes, film on the shower door, soap that will not lather, laundry that comes out stiff, and scale accumulating inside the water heater and every faucet. It is a comfort and maintenance issue rather than a safety one — and it is quietly expensive over a decade of appliances. Compare published figures on our Iowa hardness by city page.
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Jackson County has a lot of households on private wells along the river bluffs and out in the country. No annual report arrives in your mailbox for those. The Iowa DNR recommends testing every year for bacteria and nitrate, and Iowa's Private Well Grants program covers free county lab testing through your county environmental health office.
The complaints we hear most out here are orange iron staining, a rotten-egg sulfur smell, and hardness beyond what a standard city softener is sized for. Read our well water guide, our free well testing page, or well water treatment.
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We test at your kitchen sink, walk you through the numbers, and leave a written price the same visit. No obligation. Call or text 319-319-6566, email ryan@kindwaterco.com, or get an instant quote.
We serve the Jackson and Dubuque county river corridor, including Maquoketa, Dyersville, Cascade, Dubuque, and Clinton.
Nothing in Bellevue's 2025 water quality report describes a softening process, and finished-water sodium of 4.75 to 5.2 ppm is consistent with an unsoftened supply — ion-exchange softening leaves sodium behind, and Bellevue's is very low. The city publishes no hardness figure, so the only real answer for your house comes from testing your own tap.
The 2025 report quantifies it per well: combined radium 1.58 pCi/L at the Well #3 tap and 2.94 pCi/L at Well #4, both under the 5 pCi/L maximum contaminant level, attributed to erosion of natural deposits. The report also lists barium around 0.11 ppm and fluoride 0.7 ppm. Bellevue posts reports for 2022 through 2025.
Bellevue does not publish a hardness number and we will not make one up. What the report supports is that the supply is groundwater and is not municipally softened. For scale, the USGS calls water above 180 mg/L very hard, and one grain per gallon equals 17.1 mg/L. Our free in-home test gives you your own figure.
$2,500 all-in for a standard softener, $2,850 with reverse osmosis, $2,800 for the XL, $3,450 for a well dual-tank system. Every price covers equipment, installation by a licensed plumbing professional, taxes and a lifetime parts warranty. 0% financing is available and military and first responders take $100 off.
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