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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IN2710907

Meadows Edge Elementary School

Operator location Mishawaka, Indiana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 426 people served; 37 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

426
People served (this PWS)
37
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Meadows Edge Elementary School standing, mid SDWIS violation third

426 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Meadows Edge Elementary School lands in the middle third by violation volume (37), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (426; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

37
Total EPA violations on record
11%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
426
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
Local
Connections
1
County
St. Joseph
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
33
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2015
BHC-GAMMA MR 3 2000
Coliform (TCR) MR 3 2015
Carbofuran MR 3 2000
HEXACHLOROBENZENE MR 3 2000
Atrazine MR 3 2000
Simazine MR 3 2000
LASSO MR 3 2000
Picloram MR 3 2000
OXAMYL MR 3 2000
Glyphosate MR 3 2000
Endothall MR 3 2000

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Meadows Edge Elementary School has 37 recorded EPA violations, 48% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 51% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 37), 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)

37 Lower than most fewer violations than 51% 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 Meadows Edge Elementary School

EPA SDWIS lists 426 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

37 violations · 426 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Meadows Edge Elementary School

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