ELWOOD WATER & SEWAGE: EPA violation history, explained
ELWOOD WATER & SEWAGE had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 8,586 people get their water from it, across 3,516 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
10 total violations and 3 health-based ones put ELWOOD WATER & SEWAGE at the 59th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,284 of 12,903.
How ELWOOD WATER & SEWAGE compares within IN
ELWOOD WATER & SEWAGE's 3 health-based violations sit above the IN average of 2.9, across 283 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for ELWOOD WATER & SEWAGE is from 2023-09-01 (health-based: 2023-09-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ELWOOD WATER & SEWAGE'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: Groundwater Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Vinyl chloride
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
ELWOOD WATER & SEWAGE's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and ELWOOD WATER & SEWAGE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,284th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.