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Community Water System · PWS IN5263004

Spurgeon Water Works

Operator location Spurgeon, Indiana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 430 people served; 42 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.

430
People served (this PWS)
42
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Spurgeon Water Works standing, mid SDWIS violation third

430 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Spurgeon Water Works lands in the middle third by violation volume (42), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (430; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

42
Total EPA violations on record
10%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
430
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

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
229
County
Pike
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
32
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 2006
TTHM MR 7 2016
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 7 2016
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 4 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 4 2024
Cadmium MR 1 1979
Barium MR 1 1979
Selenium MR 1 1979
Nitrate MR 1 1979
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1980
Arsenic MR 1 1979
Mercury MR 1 1979
Fluoride MR 1 1979
Chromium MR 1 1979

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Spurgeon Water Works has 42 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 48% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 42), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

42 Around the middle fewer violations than 48% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Spurgeon Water Works

EPA SDWIS lists 430 people served and 229 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch

Nationwide peers

42 violations · 430 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Spurgeon 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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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