Community Water System · PWS IN5266001
Francesville Water Department
Operator location Francesville, Indiana - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 969 people served; 138 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 969
- People served (this PWS)
- 138
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Francesville Water Department standing, high SDWIS violation third
969 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #20,157 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Francesville Water Department sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (138), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (969; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,157 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #486 of 788
- Population · IN
- 138
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- 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
- 453
- County
- Pulaski
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 116
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 12 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 7 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Groundwater Rule | Other | 4 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Bromate | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Diquat | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Endothall | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Simazine | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Picloram | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 3 | 2017 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| LASSO | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Chlordane | MR | 3 | 2010 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Francesville Water Department has 138 recorded EPA violations, 80% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 20% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 138), and it ranks #20,157 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)
138 Higher than most more violations than 80% 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 Francesville Water Department
EPA SDWIS lists 969 people served and 453 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
138 violations · 969 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Francesville Water Department
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