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Lapel Municipal Water Company

Operator location Lapel, Indiana - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 100 EPA violations; groundwater source; 2,379 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

2,379
People served (this PWS)
100
EPA violations (this PWS)
6
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lapel Municipal Water Company standing, high SDWIS violation third

100 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 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #12,338 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Lapel Municipal Water Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (100), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,379 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#12,338 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#258 of 788
Population · IN
100
Total EPA violations on record
6%
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
972
County
Madison
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
65
Treatment Tech Violations
6

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 19 2022
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 2000
Lead and Copper Rule MR 6 2018
Lead and Copper Rule TT 4 2001
TTHM MR 3 2016
Groundwater Rule Other 3 2019
Dalapon MR 3 1999
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 2 1999
Carbon tetrachloride MR 2 1999
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 2 1999
Trichloroethylene MR 2 1999
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 2 1999
CHLOROBENZENE MR 2 1999
Benzene MR 2 1999
Ethylbenzene MR 2 1999
Styrene MR 2 1999
Atrazine MR 2 2000
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 2 1999
Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule TT 2 2023
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 2 1999
Xylenes, Total MR 2 1999
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 2 1999
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 2 1999
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 2 1999
LASSO MR 2 2000
Tetrachloroethylene MR 2 1999
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 2 1999
Toluene MR 2 1999
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 2 1999
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 2 1999

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lapel Municipal Water Company has 100 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 100), and it ranks #12,338 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)

100 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% 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 Lapel Municipal Water Company

100 violations on record for IN5248013; 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

100 violations · 2,379 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.

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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 Lapel Municipal Water Company

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater