Riverdale has not run a water system of its own since 1981. The federal Safe Drinking Water Information System still keeps the file: Riverdale Public Water Supply, PWSID IA8278089, 653 people on 200 connections, buying its water from Iowa American Water, marked inactive on 19 November 1981. Today Riverdale is named on Iowa American Water's Quad Cities Typical Water Quality sheet alongside Davenport, Bettendorf, LeClaire and Panorama Park, and that sheet puts hardness at 136 to 350 mg/L, or 7.9 to 20.4 grains per gallon, with no softening before it reaches the tap.
Kind Water Co installs water softeners, whole-home filtration and reverse osmosis drinking-water systems in Riverdale homes. We also repair and maintain the equipment you already have, including brands we did not sell, and for acreages on a private well we build complete well systems. Installation is done by licensed local plumbing professionals we vet, schedule, and stand behind.
Everything starts with a free in-home water test. At your kitchen sink we measure hardness, iron and total dissolved solids, so a softener is sized to what your tap delivers rather than to the top or bottom of a published range. The first 50 miles of travel are free, then it is $1 a mile, and that figure is quoted before you agree to anything. To get going, book the free in-home water test or run the instant quote. If a softener you already own has stopped doing its job, our softener repair guide covers the usual faults.
| Riverdale at a glance | What the record shows |
|---|---|
| Who supplies the water | Iowa American Water, Quad Cities District, PWSID IA8222001: 147,720 people through 57,222 service connections in EPA SDWIS. Riverdale's own purchased-water system, IA8278089, has been inactive since 19 November 1981. |
| Where it comes from | The Mississippi River, treated at Iowa American Water's East River Station, per the Quad Cities Typical Water Quality sheet. |
| Softened at the plant? | No. None of the 26 treatment records EPA SDWIS holds for IA8222001 is a softening step. |
| Published hardness | 136–350 mg/L as CaCO3, or 7.9–20.4 grains per gallon, on Iowa American Water's Quad Cities Typical Water Quality sheet (2019 data), which names Riverdale in its area served. |
The inactive Riverdale file is short, but what it holds is specific. SDWIS classifies it as a community water system on purchased surface water, owned by local government, serving 653 people through 200 service connections. Its only source entry is a connection to Iowa American Water's Davenport system, PWSID IA8222001. That connection was closed out on 1 November 1981, and the system itself was deactivated on 19 November.
The utility's side of the ledger records the same connection. Iowa American Water's facility inventory in SDWIS still carries a line reading “CC TO RIVERDALE WS, IA8278089”, now marked inactive, among dozens of connection lines to subdivisions, mobile home parks, businesses and other water systems. Riverdale once bought its water from Iowa American as a separate, locally owned system. The 2019 sheet, which lists Riverdale in the Quad Cities District's area served, shows where that arrangement ended up.
The two population figures measure different things, so they do not need to match. The 653 is what the old water system reported serving; the Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 estimate for the City of Riverdale is 385 residents.
Iowa American's sheet does not give Riverdale one hardness number. It gives a spread for water drawn from the Mississippi River: 136 mg/L at the low end and 350 mg/L at the high end. The sheet does not say what moves the figure within that range, so we treat both ends as possible at your tap.
On the U.S. Geological Survey's scale, 121 to 180 mg/L is hard and anything above 180 mg/L is very hard. Riverdale's published range starts inside the hard band and tops out at nearly twice the very-hard line. Nowhere in that range does the water count as soft, or even moderately hard.
The spread is also the practical problem with sizing a softener from a table. A unit programmed for 8 grains runs short of capacity when the water sits nearer 20. One programmed for 20 regenerates more often than it needs to, and uses more salt, whenever the water is closer to 8. A reading at your own tap, and a setting with a sensible margin above it, is how we handle that. Our Iowa hardness by city guide shows how this range compares with the rest of the state.
Iowa American's Quad Cities sheet lists both iron and manganese as ND, not detected, against a secondary standard of 0.3 mg/L for iron. For a Riverdale home on the public supply, that narrows the job. Hardness is the problem a softener solves. The orange staining and metallic taste that send well owners shopping for iron filters are not in this record.
The same sheet lists sodium at 15.5 mg/L, informational only with no limit set, a pH of 7.3, and disinfection by chloramines. If what bothers you is how the water tastes rather than the spots it leaves, that is a separate question from hardness and usually one for the kitchen tap. Our reverse osmosis guide for the Quad Cities walks through it.
Every price below is all-in: equipment, installation, taxes and a lifetime parts warranty. The number you read here is the number on the paperwork.
Maintenance runs $199 a year for a home with tank RO and $249 a year for a home with tankless RO. A diagnostic service call is $199, and a trip for a known issue is $99 plus the part. Financing is available at 0%, with $100 off for military and first responders.
The published numbers describe the public supply only. If your home draws from a private well, no utility tests that water and nothing in the table above applies to it. The Scott County Health Department inspects and permits private well construction in the county and, through Iowa's Grants to Counties program, samples private wells at no cost for residents whose primary water source is a well. It recommends testing for coliform bacteria and nitrate once a year, and again after pump or pipe repairs. The department's number is 563-326-8618.
Our in-home test measures hardness, iron and total dissolved solids. It does not test for bacteria, nitrate, arsenic, lead or PFAS, which need a certified lab. Once a well has tested safe, we build around it, and UV is offered as a supplemental NSF/ANSI 55 Class B unit for water that has already tested safe, never as the fix for a contaminated well.
Riverdale's published range runs from 7.9 to 20.4 grains, and a softener, if you have one, is set to a single number somewhere in or outside it. We will test at your kitchen sink, check how your current equipment is set, and leave you a written all-in quote, free and with no obligation. Book the free in-home water test, try the instant quote, or call or text 319-319-6566.
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Iowa American Water's Quad Cities District, PWSID IA8222001, which EPA SDWIS lists as serving 147,720 people. Riverdale is named in the area served on Iowa American's Quad Cities Typical Water Quality sheet. The town's own purchased-water system, Riverdale Public Water Supply (IA8278089), has been inactive in SDWIS since 19 November 1981.
Iowa American Water publishes 136 to 350 mg/L as calcium carbonate, or 7.9 to 20.4 grains per gallon, on its Quad Cities Typical Water Quality sheet (2019 data). On the U.S. Geological Survey scale that runs from hard at the low end to very hard at the top, and none of it is softened at the plant.
Not going by the published record. Iowa American's Quad Cities sheet lists iron and manganese as not detected. A private well is a different matter, and our free in-home test measures iron at your tap, so you will know either way.
Yes. We repair and maintain existing softeners, filters and reverse osmosis systems, including brands we did not sell. A diagnostic service call is $199, and a trip for a known issue is $99 plus the part. If a unit is not worth fixing, we will tell you that before we quote a replacement.
$2,500 all-in, or $2,850 with reverse osmosis. That covers the equipment, installation by licensed local plumbing professionals we vet, schedule, and stand behind, taxes and a lifetime parts warranty. Travel is free for the first 50 miles, then $1 a mile, quoted before you agree.
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