Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IN2640909
Sand Creek Campground
Operator location Chesterton, Indiana - 29% of 184 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 53 served per SDWIS.
- 53
- People served (this PWS)
- 184
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 54
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sand Creek Campground standing, high SDWIS violation third
29% of 184 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 29% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Sand Creek Campground sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (184), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (53; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 29% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 184
- Total EPA violations on record
- 29%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 53
- 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
- 72
- County
- Porter
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 42
- Monitoring Violations
- 124
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 12
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 61 | 2015 |
| Nitrate | MR | 41 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 38 | 2014 |
| E. COLI | MR | 13 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 9 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 6 | 2020 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 6 | 2024 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 4 | 2023 |
| Groundwater Rule | Other | 3 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 3 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sand Creek Campground has 184 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 29% of this system's own violations are health-based (54 of 184), 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)
184 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Sand Creek Campground
54 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN2640909.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
184 violations · 53 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 Sand Creek Campground
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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