Community Water System · PWS IN5276002
Ashley Water Department
Operator location Ashley, Indiana - 0% of 39 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 983 served per SDWIS.
- 983
- People served (this PWS)
- 39
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Ashley Water Department standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 39 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #20,008 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Ashley Water Department lands in the middle third by violation volume (39), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (983; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,008 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #477 of 788
- Population · IN
- 39
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- 401
- County
- Steuben
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 23
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 14 | 2003 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 11 | 2003 |
| Nitrate | MR | 8 | 2005 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1980 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Ashley Water Department has 39 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 50% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 39), and it ranks #20,008 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)
39 Lower than most fewer violations than 50% 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 Ashley Water Department
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN5276002.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
39 violations · 983 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Ashley Water Department
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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