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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS IN2900818

Ouabache State Park Youth Tent

Operator location Bluffton, Indiana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 600 people served; 55 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

600
People served (this PWS)
55
EPA violations (this PWS)
9
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Ouabache State Park Youth Tent standing, mid SDWIS violation third

600 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #26,230 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Ouabache State Park Youth Tent lands in the middle third by violation volume (55), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (600; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#26,230 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#682 of 788
Population · IN
55
Total EPA violations on record
16%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)

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
State
Connections
1
County
Wells
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
5
Monitoring Violations
46
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 24 2020
Nitrate MR 13 2015
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 2008
Coliform (TCR) MCL 5 2014
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 4 2016

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Ouabache State Park Youth Tent has 55 recorded EPA violations, 59% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 55), and it ranks #26,230 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

55 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% 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 Ouabache State Park Youth Tent

EPA SDWIS lists 600 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

55 violations · 600 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Ouabache State Park Youth Tent

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