Is HOPE WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
HOPE WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,113 people through 887 service connections.
How this compares nationally
32 total violations and 4 health-based ones put HOPE WATER DEPARTMENT at the 68th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,099 of 12,903.
How HOPE WATER DEPARTMENT compares within IN
IN's 283 covered systems average 2.9 health-based violations each; HOPE WATER DEPARTMENT carries 4, more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for HOPE WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2005-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HOPE WATER DEPARTMENT'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:
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is HOPE WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 4 health-based violations on file for HOPE WATER DEPARTMENT - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.