Community Water System · PWS IN5227023
Van Buren Municipal Utilities
Operator location Van Buren, Indiana - 33% of 76 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 864 served per SDWIS.
- 864
- People served (this PWS)
- 76
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 25
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Van Buren Municipal Utilities standing, high SDWIS violation third
33% of 76 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 33% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #21,584 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Van Buren Municipal Utilities sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (76), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (864; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 33% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #21,584 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #532 of 788
- Population · IN
- 76
- Total EPA violations on record
- 33%
- 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
- 381
- County
- Grant
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 23
- Monitoring Violations
- 35
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 20 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 10 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 10 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 10 | 2009 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2015 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 1993 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 2 | 1999 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Van Buren Municipal Utilities has 76 recorded EPA violations, 67% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 33% carry more. 33% of this system's own violations are health-based (25 of 76), and it ranks #21,584 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)
76 Around the middle fewer violations than 33% 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 Van Buren Municipal Utilities
25 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN5227023.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
76 violations · 864 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Van Buren Municipal Utilities
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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