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St. Joseph County, Indiana

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IN141 · St. Joseph County 221 sys · 16,354 viol · #309/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-LARGE · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 96.8% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 7.4% health
  • RANK-TOP #309/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 42.9% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-LARGE 221 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Elkhart County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, St. Joseph County ranks #309 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #5 of 92 counties in Indiana. See methodology · corpus placement.

St. Joseph County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 96.8% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 7.4% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 42.9% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #309 of 3,254 · #5 of 92 in Indiana.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around St. Joseph County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest St. Joseph County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Hendricks · lowest Elkhart · near Clinton · near Union · highest 84.9% 96.8% 96.8% 96.8% 96.9% 97% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
South Bend Water Works 115,000 340 Detected
Mishawaka Utilities 49,675 19 Detected
University of Notre Dame 7,400 86 Detected
Walkerton Light & Water 2,262 38 Clean
Sisters of Holy Cross-St. Marys College 2,111 11 Clean
North Liberty Water Works 1,896 134 -
New Carlisle Water Works 1,861 32 -
The Vineyard Church 1,473 80 -
McDonalds Restaurant 982 372 -
Seven-Eleven #32578 900 95 -
Holy Family Church 900 38 -
Granger St. (Martins Supermrk & Oscos) 880 14 -
Discovery Middle School 848 39 -
Gkpp Inc. 818 13 -
Jsb Petro Inc 755 50 -
Lakeville Water Department 750 31 -
Trinity Evangelical Church 712 31 -
Marsh Village Pantry #5637 707 79 -
Grissom Middle School 687 8 -
Laville JR. & SR. High School 675 53 Clean
Horizon Elementary School 671 31 -
Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library 663 0 -
Aqua Indiana - Wedgewood Park Water Util 645 130 -
Northpoint Elementary School 612 5 -
North Liberty Church of Christ 574 150 -
New Life Church 555 23 -
Oc Center - Subway 520 51 -
Prairie Vista Elementary School 510 8 Clean
Elm Road School 488 0 -
Meadows Edge Elementary School 426 37 -
Christ the King Lutheran Church 424 4 -
Elkhart RV Resort, LLC 410 22 -
Clearwater Village Mobile Home Park 400 112 -
Mary Frank Elementary School 393 0 -
Hamilton Grove 384 310 -
Kingdom Hall of the Jehovahs Witnesses 375 26 -
Walgreens Drugstore #6965 370 51 -
Great Lakes Auto Auction 365 3 -
St. Patrick Park 360 3 -
Trevi 356 121 -
Community Gospel Church 353 19 -
Knollwood Country Club 340 197 -
Holy Family School 320 36 -
Bell-Mart Amoco - Granger 306 22 -
St. Andrews Greek Orthodox Church 300 330 -
Granger Christian School 280 147 -
South Bend Country Club 275 46 -
Michiana Plaza 270 198 -
Dairy Queen - Granger 265 10 -
Kryder-Harr Veterinary Clinic 264 7 -

Compare beyond Indiana

Mid-flagged peers for St. Joseph County

Cross-state counties nearest St. Joseph County on flagged-system share (96.8%) and cumulative violation count (16,354). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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