Is EASTERN BARTHOLOMEW WATER's water safe to drink?
EASTERN BARTHOLOMEW WATER has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 13,547, over 6,104 connections.
EASTERN BARTHOLOMEW WATER's record against the rest of the country
EASTERN BARTHOLOMEW WATER has 42 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,501th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 42th percentile nationally.
How EASTERN BARTHOLOMEW WATER compares within IN
EASTERN BARTHOLOMEW WATER's 1 health-based violations sit within the IN average of 2.9, across 283 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for EASTERN BARTHOLOMEW WATER is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2000-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
EASTERN BARTHOLOMEW WATER's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what EASTERN BARTHOLOMEW WATER reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and EASTERN BARTHOLOMEW WATER's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,501th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.