Maysville, a town of 155, has a written plan for protecting its drinking water, approved by the Iowa DNR on 4 October 2018. The federal record also shows a quieter change since then. Maysville now lists one active well instead of two, a 350-foot Silurian well, and the plant adds only a phosphate and chlorine. No hardness figure is published for the well now in service.
A small plant that does not soften means the hardness decision lands in your utility room. We install water softeners, whole-home filtration and reverse osmosis drinking-water systems in Maysville, and we fix and maintain what is already installed, including brands we did not sell. Homes on acreages around town get complete well systems. The plumbing work is done by licensed local plumbing professionals we vet, schedule, and stand behind, so there is one company to call before, during and after the job.
Because no hardness number is published for the well Maysville now uses, the free in-home water test is where every quote starts. We take it at your kitchen sink and measure hardness, iron and total dissolved solids. There is no travel charge for the first 50 miles, then $1 a mile beyond that, always quoted before you agree. You can book the free in-home water test now, or try the instant quote for a first look at price.
| Maysville at a glance | What the record shows |
|---|---|
| Who supplies the water | Maysville Municipal Water Dept, city-owned, PWSID IA8255060: 156 people and 62 service connections in EPA SDWIS. |
| Where it comes from | The Silurian aquifer. EPA SDWIS lists Well #2 (1996) as the active source and records Well #1 (1955) as deactivated on 26 August 2025. The Iowa DNR puts the wells at 350 and 160 feet, and its Source Water Tracker still shows both as active. |
| Softened at the plant? | No. EPA SDWIS lists chlorination and phosphate sequestration only, and the 2019 state survey describes polyphosphate for iron sequestration plus chlorine. |
| Published hardness | None published for Well #2. The Iowa DNR sample database, the town's source water plan and the 2019 survey give no figure. The Iowa DNR Municipal Water-Supply Inventory lists seven samples from Well #1, now inactive, taken from 1960 to 1984 at 309 to 324 mg/L as calcium carbonate (about 18 to 19 grains per gallon). |
Source water protection planning in Iowa is voluntary, and Maysville did it anyway. Working with a specialist from the Iowa Rural Water Association, the city's operator and clerk completed a Source Water Protection Plan on 6 December 2017. The DNR's program received it that month and approved it as a Phase 2 plan on 4 October 2018, describing it as meeting the program's criteria.
The plan maps where Maysville's water comes from underground using time-of-travel capture zones: the ground that feeds the wells within two, five and ten years. The ten-year zone covers 869 acres, 633.5 of them in row crops. Even so, the plan reports that nitrate levels are very low, and it credits the geology: drilling records near Maysville show 50 to 100 feet of glacial till sitting on top of the Silurian dolomite, and the state rates the aquifer here as only slightly susceptible to contamination. Recent state samples agree, with nitrate below 0.10 mg/L in May 2025 and 0.3 mg/L at Well 2 in April 2026.
The weak points the plan names are other people's wells. Casings that have failed, wells that were never grouted, and wells abandoned without being properly plugged can all carry surface water down into the aquifer. The plan identifies ten private wells inside the capture zones, from 50 to 355 feet deep, and sets a goal of plugging unused or failing private wells with Scott County Environmental Health. It also notes that Maysville has no centralized sewer, so every home's septic system is part of protecting the town's water.
When the state inspected on 19 September 2019, Maysville ran two wells. Well #1 is 160 feet deep with a pump of about 60 gallons a minute and sits inside the same building as the treatment plant, the old fire department. Well #2 is 350 feet deep with a pump of about 75 gallons a minute. The inspector noted the wells were alternated and that the water in the system's single 3,000-gallon hydropneumatic tank was generally a mix of both. The survey lists that tank as the system's storage and pressure. The survey found no significant deficiencies.
The federal inventory now tells a different story. EPA SDWIS now records Well #1 and the shared entry point for both wells as deactivated on 26 August 2025 and lists a separate entry point for Well #2 alone as active, and the state's 2026 samples are drawn at Well 2. The records do not say why, so we will not guess.
The plan also notes naturally occurring ammonia in Maysville's Silurian water and says chlorine residuals are sometimes difficult to maintain. Sodium, for reference, measured 18 mg/L at Well 2 on 3 June 2026.
EPA SDWIS lists no violations for IA8255060 since 2018. The older entries are Lead and Copper Rule monitoring violations from 2000 and 2001, category monitoring and reporting, and Consumer Confidence Report rule violations from 1999 to 2001, category "Other". None were health-based, and all returned to compliance by 8 July 2002.
Maysville's plant sequesters iron with polyphosphate, which keeps it dissolved rather than removing it, so the iron reading at your sink matters as much as hardness when we choose equipment.
Every price is all-in: equipment, installation, taxes and a lifetime parts warranty. Annual maintenance is $199 a year for a tank-RO home and $249 a year for a tankless-RO home. A diagnostic service call is $199, and a known-issue trip is $99 plus the part. We offer 0% financing and $100 off for military and first responders.
If you want better-tasting drinking water on top of softening, our reverse osmosis guide for the Quad Cities area covers tank and tankless systems. If the softener you have now is leaving spots or running out of soft water, read the water softener repair guide before you replace anything.
Maysville's own plan is a good reminder that private wells and the town supply share one aquifer. If your home is on a well, the Scott County Health Department will sample it without charge through Iowa's Grants to Counties program, with the analysis done by a state-certified laboratory. The department's advice is a coliform bacteria and nitrate test every year, plus after any pump or pipe repair and after drilling a new well. The program also helps pay for plugging a well you no longer use, which is exactly what the Maysville plan asks of nearby landowners, and for rehabilitating an older well. Private well construction in the county is permitted and inspected by the department. The number is 563-326-8618, and our Iowa free well water testing guide walks through the steps.
When the lab result comes back clean, we set up a well dual-tank system for hardness and iron. UV is a supplemental NSF/ANSI 55 Class B unit for water that has already tested safe; it is not a fix for a contaminated well.
No hardness figure is published for the well Maysville now uses, and the supply itself changed in 2025, so a reading from your own faucet is the only current number there is. We measure hardness, iron and total dissolved solids at your kitchen sink and leave the results with a written quote. The visit does not test for bacteria, nitrate, arsenic, lead or PFAS; a certified lab handles those. Book the free in-home water test, or call or text 319-319-6566.
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No hardness figure is published for Well #2, the well now in service. The Iowa DNR sample database holds no hardness result for PWSID IA8255060, and neither the source water protection plan nor the 2019 sanitary survey prints one. The Iowa DNR's older inventory lists Well #1, now inactive, at 309 to 324 mg/L in samples from 1960 to 1984. The plant does not soften, so a test at your own tap, which we do free, gives the current number.
EPA SDWIS lists Well #2 (1996), a Silurian aquifer well the Iowa DNR puts at 350 feet, as the active source. Well #1 (1955, 160 feet) and the shared entry point for both wells were recorded as deactivated on 26 August 2025. The Iowa DNR Source Water Tracker still shows both wells as active.
It is a Phase 2 Source Water Protection Plan the city completed with the Iowa Rural Water Association on 6 December 2017, approved by the Iowa DNR on 4 October 2018. It maps two, five and ten-year capture zones around the wells, identifies ten private wells inside them, and aims to plug unused or failing private wells with Scott County Environmental Health.
Yes. A softener is $2,500 all-in, and we also repair and maintain existing softeners, filters and reverse osmosis systems, including brands we did not sell. A diagnostic service call is $199 and a known-issue trip is $99 plus the part. Installation is done by licensed local plumbing professionals we vet, schedule, and stand behind.
EPA SDWIS lists none since 2018. The older records are Lead and Copper Rule monitoring violations from 2000 and 2001 and Consumer Confidence Report rule violations from 1999 to 2001. None were health-based, and all returned to compliance by 8 July 2002.
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