Community Water System · PWS IN5261005
Montezuma Municipal Utility
Operator location Montezuma, Indiana - 60% of 148 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,022 served per SDWIS.
- 1,022
- People served (this PWS)
- 148
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 89
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Montezuma Municipal Utility standing, high SDWIS violation third
60% of 148 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 60% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #19,228 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Montezuma Municipal Utility sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (148), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,022 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 60% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #19,228 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #448 of 788
- Population · IN
- 148
- Total EPA violations on record
- 60%
- 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
- 452
- County
- Parke
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 89
- Monitoring Violations
- 57
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MCL | 89 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 16 | 2020 |
| TTHM | MR | 11 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 11 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2014 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1994 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Montezuma Municipal Utility has 148 recorded EPA violations, 81% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 19% carry more. 60% of this system's own violations are health-based (89 of 148), and it ranks #19,228 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)
148 Higher than most more violations than 81% 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 Montezuma Municipal Utility
89 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN5261005.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
148 violations · 1,022 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 Montezuma Municipal Utility
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