Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IN2640872
Shults-Lewis Childrens Home - Well #1
Operator location Valparaiso, Indiana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 40 people served; 152 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 40
- People served (this PWS)
- 152
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 19
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Shults-Lewis Childrens Home - Well #1 standing, high SDWIS violation third
40 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Shults-Lewis Childrens Home - Well #1 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (152), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (40; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 152
- Total EPA violations on record
- 13%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 40
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Porter
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 11
- Monitoring Violations
- 130
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 8
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| E. COLI | MR | 31 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 26 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 11 | 2003 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 10 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 1992 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 5 | 2018 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Nickel | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 3 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 3 | 2024 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 2001 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 3 | 2001 |
| Simazine | MR | 3 | 2001 |
| LASSO | MR | 3 | 2001 |
| Diquat | MR | 2 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Shults-Lewis Childrens Home - Well #1 has 152 recorded EPA violations, 81% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 19% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (19 of 152), 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)
152 Higher than most more violations than 81% 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 Shults-Lewis Childrens Home - Well #1
EPA SDWIS lists 40 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
152 violations · 40 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Shults-Lewis Childrens Home - Well #1
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