Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IN2320841
Clayton Food Store
Operator location Clayton, Indiana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 31 people served; 57 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 31
- People served (this PWS)
- 57
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Clayton Food Store standing, mid SDWIS violation third
31 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 9% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Clayton Food Store lands in the middle third by violation volume (57), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (31; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 9% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 57
- Total EPA violations on record
- 9%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 31
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Hendricks
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 52
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 33 | 2010 |
| Nitrate | MR | 13 | 2012 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 6 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 5 | 2006 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Clayton Food Store has 57 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 57), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
57 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Clayton Food Store
EPA SDWIS lists 31 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
57 violations · 31 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Clayton Food Store
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Indiana compares on the same EPA violation measures. Indiana systems
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