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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IN2440829

Red Owl Lounge

Operator location Howe, Indiana - 56% of 72 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 100 served per SDWIS.

100
People served (this PWS)
72
EPA violations (this PWS)
40
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Red Owl Lounge standing, mid SDWIS violation third

56% of 72 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 56% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Red Owl Lounge lands in the middle third by violation volume (72), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (100; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 56% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

72
Total EPA violations on record
56%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
100
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
LaGrange
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
40
Monitoring Violations
32
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MCL 40 2011
Coliform (TCR) MR 15 2014
Nitrate MR 14 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 3 2023

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Red Owl Lounge has 72 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 56% of this system's own violations are health-based (40 of 72), 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)

72 Around the middle fewer violations than 34% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Red Owl Lounge

40 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN2440829.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch

Nationwide peers

72 violations · 100 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Red Owl Lounge

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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