Community Water System · PWS IN5279002
Battle Ground Water District
Operator location Battle Ground, Indiana - 31% of 16 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,940 served per SDWIS.
- 1,940
- People served (this PWS)
- 16
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Battle Ground Water District standing, low SDWIS violation third
31% of 16 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 31% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,895 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Battle Ground Water District is in the lower third by violation count (16; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is mid-pack at 1,940 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 31% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,895 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #302 of 788
- Population · IN
- 16
- Total EPA violations on record
- 31%
- 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
- 850
- County
- Tippecanoe
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 5
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 5 | 2024 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 1 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Battle Ground Water District has 16 recorded EPA violations, 26% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 72% carry more. 31% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 16), and it ranks #13,895 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)
16 Lower than most fewer violations than 72% 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 Battle Ground Water District
5 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for IN5279002.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch
Nationwide peers
16 violations · 1,940 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
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 Battle Ground Water District
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