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Community Water System · PWS IN5216008

Decatur Co. Water Corp.

Operator location Greensburg, Indiana - 41% of 44 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,440 served per SDWIS.

3,440
People served (this PWS)
44
EPA violations (this PWS)
18
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Decatur Co. Water Corp. standing, mid SDWIS violation third

41% of 44 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 41% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #9,740 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Decatur Co. Water Corp. lands in the middle third by violation volume (44), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (3,440; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 41% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#9,740 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#207 of 788
Population · IN
44
Total EPA violations on record
41%
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
1,458
County
Decatur
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
18
Monitoring Violations
24
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 14 2021
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 8 2010
TTHM MR 8 2010
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 4 2021
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2001
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2021
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2001

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Decatur Co. Water Corp. has 44 recorded EPA violations, 53% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 46% carry more. 41% of this system's own violations are health-based (18 of 44), and it ranks #9,740 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)

44 Around the middle fewer violations than 46% 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 Decatur Co. Water Corp.

18 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN5216008.

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

Nationwide peers

44 violations · 3,440 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Decatur Co. Water Corp.

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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