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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IN2450068

Ross Baptist Church

Operator location Gary, Indiana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 110 people served; 54 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

110
People served (this PWS)
54
EPA violations (this PWS)
11
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Ross Baptist Church standing, mid SDWIS violation third

110 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Ross Baptist Church lands in the middle third by violation volume (54), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (110; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

54
Total EPA violations on record
20%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
110
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
3
County
Lake
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
5
Monitoring Violations
40
Treatment Tech Violations
6

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 15 2022
Coliform (TCR) MR 13 2015
Nitrate MR 8 2013
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 6 2020
Coliform (TCR) MCL 5 2009
E. COLI MR 4 2020
Revised Total Coliform Rule RPT 3 2022

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Ross Baptist Church has 54 recorded EPA violations, 59% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 41% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 54), 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)

54 Around the middle fewer violations than 41% 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 Ross Baptist Church

EPA SDWIS lists 110 people served and 3 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

54 violations · 110 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Ross Baptist Church

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