Is HARTFORD CITY WATER WORKS's water safe to drink?
HARTFORD CITY WATER WORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,600 people get their water from it, across 2,400 connections.
HARTFORD CITY WATER WORKS's record against the rest of the country
38 total violations and 1 health-based ones put HARTFORD CITY WATER WORKS at the 41th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,551 of 12,903.
How HARTFORD CITY WATER WORKS compares within IN
IN's 283 covered systems average 2.9 health-based violations each; HARTFORD CITY WATER WORKS carries 1, not more than typical for the state. 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 HARTFORD CITY WATER WORKS is from 2025-01-10 (health-based: 2002-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HARTFORD CITY WATER WORKS'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 HARTFORD CITY WATER WORKS 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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 38 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.