Community Water System · PWS IN5265008
Poseyville Municipal Water Department
Operator location Poseyville, Indiana - 73% of 90 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,400 served per SDWIS.
- 1,400
- People served (this PWS)
- 90
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 66
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Poseyville Municipal Water Department standing, high SDWIS violation third
73% of 90 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 73% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #16,540 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Poseyville Municipal Water Department sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (90), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,400 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 73% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,540 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #373 of 788
- Population · IN
- 90
- Total EPA violations on record
- 73%
- 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
- 560
- County
- Posey
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 66
- Monitoring Violations
- 18
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MCL | 64 | 2024 |
| Nitrate | MR | 8 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2024 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 1994 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 1 | 1992 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1980 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Poseyville Municipal Water Department has 90 recorded EPA violations, 71% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 73% of this system's own violations are health-based (66 of 90), and it ranks #16,540 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)
90 Around the middle fewer violations than 29% 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 Poseyville Municipal Water Department
66 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN5265008.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
90 violations · 1,400 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 Poseyville Municipal Water Department
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