City of Cascade Iowa

City of Cascade Iowa Public Works Water Department

The City of Cascade provides and operates a public water supply licensed and monitored by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The City’s water system consists of two ground water wells, two well houses, two storage towers, water disinfection equipment, a pressure boosting station, 12 miles of underground water distribution lines, and 160 fire hydrants.

The City’s wells and towers are strategically placed one each on each side of town. Well #4 is 240 feet deep and draws water from the Silurian limestone aquifer. Well #5 is 950-feet deep and pulls water from the Jordan sandstone aquifer. Chlorine is used to disinfect water at both wells from naturally occurring bacteria. Hydrofluorosilicic acid is added for dental hygiene. The daily capacity of the wells is 741,000 gallons. Average daily consumption is 230,000 gallons. The two water towers hold a combined total of 640,000 gallons of water.

Well House #5 & East Tower

Well House #4

The City maintains an aggressive water quality monitoring schedule, sampling and testing for over 70 microbiological, radioactive, inorganic, synthetic organic, and volatile-organic contaminates several times each month. The City has an active Well Head Protection Program that regulates land uses around its wells to head-off potential contamination. The City has approximately 1,000 water accounts or customers and the water rates are below:

Cascade Water Rates Table