Community Water System · PWS IN5243021
Silver Lake Water Works
Operator location Silver Lake, Indiana - 0% of 63 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 1,030 served per SDWIS.
- 1,030
- People served (this PWS)
- 63
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Silver Lake Water Works standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 63 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 #19,153 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Silver Lake Water Works lands in the middle third by violation volume (63), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,030 (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.
- #19,153 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #447 of 788
- Population · IN
- 63
- 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
- 454
- County
- Kosciusko
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 41
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 17 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2013 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2009 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2009 |
| E. COLI | MR | 7 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 3 | 2017 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1987 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1979 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Silver Lake Water Works has 63 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 63), and it ranks #19,153 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)
63 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% 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 Silver Lake Water Works
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 IN5243021.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
63 violations · 1,030 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
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 Silver Lake Water Works
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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