Community Water System · PWS IN5243013
Mentone Water Company
Operator location Mentone, Indiana - 0% of 392 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 1,001 served per SDWIS.
- 1,001
- People served (this PWS)
- 392
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Mentone Water Company standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 392 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #19,419 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Mentone Water Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (392), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,001 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #19,419 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #459 of 788
- Population · IN
- 392
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- 365
- County
- Kosciusko
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 388
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 18 | 2006 |
| Arsenic | MR | 15 | 2020 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| Selenium | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| Barium | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| Cadmium | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| Fluoride | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| Mercury | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| Nickel | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| Chromium | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| Atrazine | MR | 6 | 2001 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| LASSO | MR | 6 | 2001 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 6 | 2001 |
| Simazine | MR | 6 | 2001 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2002 |
| Benzene | MR | 6 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Mentone Water Company has 392 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 392), and it ranks #19,419 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)
392 Higher than most more violations than 93% 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 Mentone Water Company
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN5243013.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
392 violations · 1,001 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 Mentone Water Company
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