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Syracuse Water Company

Operator location Syracuse, Indiana - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 114 EPA violations; groundwater source; 2,810 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

2,810
People served (this PWS)
114
EPA violations (this PWS)
17
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Syracuse Water Company standing, high SDWIS violation third

114 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 15% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,085 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Syracuse Water Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (114), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,810 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 15% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#11,085 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#230 of 788
Population · IN
114
Total EPA violations on record
15%
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
1,505
County
Kosciusko
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
17
Monitoring Violations
95
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 13 2014
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 2014
Arsenic MCL 4 2007
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 4 2014
TTHM MR 4 2014
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene MR 3 1995
LASSO MR 3 1995
Nitrate MR 3 1994
Heptachlor MR 3 1995
Heptachlor epoxide MR 3 1995
Pentachlorophenol MR 3 1995
ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE MR 3 1995
Endrin MR 3 1995
CYANIDE MR 3 2008
BHC-GAMMA MR 3 1995
Methoxychlor MR 3 1995
Atrazine MR 3 1995
Benzo(a)pyrene MR 3 1995
Carbofuran MR 3 1995
Dalapon MR 3 1995
HEXACHLOROBENZENE MR 3 1995
2,4,5-TP MR 3 1995
Toxaphene MR 3 1995
Diquat MR 3 1995
1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE MR 3 1995
Chlordane MR 3 1995
2,4-D MR 3 1995
Simazine MR 2 1995
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate MR 2 1995
Picloram MR 2 1995

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Syracuse Water Company has 114 recorded EPA violations, 76% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 24% carry more. 15% of this system's own violations are health-based (17 of 114), and it ranks #11,085 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)

114 Higher than most more violations than 76% 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 Syracuse Water Company

114 violations on record for IN5243025; 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

114 violations · 2,810 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Syracuse Water Company

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