Community Water System · PWS IN5204006
Fowler Water Works
Operator location Fowler, Indiana - 7% of 42 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 2,342 served per SDWIS.
- 2,342
- People served (this PWS)
- 42
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Fowler Water Works standing, mid SDWIS violation third
7% of 42 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 7% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #12,451 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Fowler Water Works lands in the middle third by violation volume (42), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,342 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 7% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,451 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #261 of 788
- Population · IN
- 42
- Total EPA violations on record
- 7%
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 1,308
- County
- Benton
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 19
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 19 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 2001 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 2 | 2010 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1980 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Fowler Water Works has 42 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 48% carry more. 7% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 42), and it ranks #12,451 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)
42 Around the middle fewer violations than 48% 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 Fowler Water Works
3 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN5204006.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
42 violations · 2,342 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Fowler Water Works
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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