Community Water System · PWS IN5227010
Jonesboro Water Department
Operator location Jonesboro, Indiana - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 84 EPA violations; groundwater source; 2,034 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,034
- People served (this PWS)
- 84
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 15
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Jonesboro Water Department standing, high SDWIS violation third
84 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 18% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,414 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Jonesboro Water Department sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (84), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,034 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 18% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,414 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #290 of 788
- Population · IN
- 84
- Total EPA violations on record
- 18%
- 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
- 801
- County
- Grant
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 15
- Monitoring Violations
- 37
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 26 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 19 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 15 | 2006 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 3 | 2019 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2021 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1980 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Jonesboro Water Department has 84 recorded EPA violations, 69% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 30% carry more. 18% of this system's own violations are health-based (15 of 84), and it ranks #13,414 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)
84 Around the middle fewer violations than 30% 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 Jonesboro Water Department
84 violations on record for IN5227010; 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
84 violations · 2,034 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Jonesboro Water Department
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