Community Water System · PWS IN5267005
Putnamville Correctional Facility
Operator location Greencastle, Indiana - 12% of 59 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 2,505 served per SDWIS.
- 2,505
- People served (this PWS)
- 59
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 7
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Putnamville Correctional Facility standing, mid SDWIS violation third
12% of 59 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,844 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Putnamville Correctional Facility lands in the middle third by violation volume (59), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,505 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,844 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #248 of 788
- Population · IN
- 59
- Total EPA violations on record
- 12%
- 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
- State
- Connections
- 38
- County
- Putnam
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 39
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 7
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 10 | 2013 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 9 | 2024 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 7 | 2002 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 2 | 1995 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2023 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Putnamville Correctional Facility has 59 recorded EPA violations, 61% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 39% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 59), and it ranks #11,844 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)
59 Around the middle fewer violations than 39% 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 Putnamville Correctional Facility
7 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN5267005.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
59 violations · 2,505 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
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 Putnamville Correctional Facility
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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