Community Water System · PWS OH7708812
St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La
Operator location Akron, Ohio - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 143 people served; 180 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 143
- People served (this PWS)
- 180
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 38
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La standing, high SDWIS violation third
143 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (180), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (143; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 180
- Total EPA violations on record
- 21%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 143
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Summit
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 38
- Monitoring Violations
- 135
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 22 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 21 | 2008 |
| Nitrate | MR | 19 | 2009 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 8 | 2018 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 1994 |
| Endrin | MR | 7 | 1992 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 7 | 1992 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 7 | 1992 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 7 | 1992 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 7 | 1992 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 7 | 1992 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 4 | 2017 |
| TTHM | MCL | 4 | 2018 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2023 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 1998 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 1998 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 1998 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 1998 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 3 | 1998 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 1998 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2018 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La has 180 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (38 of 180), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
180 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La
EPA SDWIS lists 143 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Ohio EPA, Division of Drinking and Ground Waters
Nationwide peers
180 violations · 143 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.
What to do with St. Luke Lutheran Community - Portage La
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