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Community Water System · PWS IN5240005

Hayden Water Association

Operator location North Vernon, Indiana - 54% of 184 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,395 served per SDWIS.

2,395
People served (this PWS)
184
EPA violations (this PWS)
99
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Hayden Water Association standing, high SDWIS violation third

54% of 184 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 54% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,294 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Hayden Water Association sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (184), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,395 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 54% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#12,294 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#257 of 788
Population · IN
184
Total EPA violations on record
54%
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
997
County
Jennings
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
87
Monitoring Violations
42
Treatment Tech Violations
12

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 67 2017
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 34 2025
Lead and Copper Rule MR 21 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 20 2014
Groundwater Rule TT 12 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 7 2012
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 6 2022
TTHM MR 4 2004
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 4 2004
Revised Total Coliform Rule RPT 3 2019
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 1 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Hayden Water Association has 184 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 54% of this system's own violations are health-based (99 of 184), and it ranks #12,294 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)

184 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Hayden Water Association

99 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN5240005.

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

Nationwide peers

184 violations · 2,395 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 Hayden Water Association

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