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Community Water System · PWS IN5216004

St. Paul Municipal Water

Operator location Arlington, Indiana - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 192 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,096 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,096
People served (this PWS)
192
EPA violations (this PWS)
9
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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St. Paul Municipal Water standing, high SDWIS violation third

192 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,670 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

St. Paul Municipal Water sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (192), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,096 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#18,670 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#433 of 788
Population · IN
192
Total EPA violations on record
5%
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
396
County
Decatur
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
3
Monitoring Violations
162
Treatment Tech Violations
6

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 12 2024
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 8 2025
Arsenic MR 6 2024
Cadmium MR 6 2024
Chromium MR 6 2024
Antimony, Total MR 6 2024
Beryllium, Total MR 6 2024
Thallium, Total MR 6 2024
Selenium MR 6 2024
Barium MR 6 2024
Nickel MR 6 2024
Mercury MR 6 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 5 2002
TTHM MR 4 2022
Groundwater Rule TT 4 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 4 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule RPT 3 2021
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2024
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 3 2024
Xylenes, Total MR 3 2024
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 3 2024
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 3 2024
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 3 2024
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 3 2024
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 3 2024
Trichloroethylene MR 3 2024
Tetrachloroethylene MR 3 2024
CHLOROBENZENE MR 3 2024
Toluene MR 3 2024
Ethylbenzene MR 3 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

St. Paul Municipal Water has 192 recorded EPA violations, 85% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 15% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 192), and it ranks #18,670 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)

192 Higher than most more violations than 85% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for St. Paul Municipal Water

192 violations on record for IN5216004; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch

Nationwide peers

192 violations · 1,096 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with St. Paul Municipal Water

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
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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