Is INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - NORTHWEST's water safe to drink?
INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - NORTHWEST has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 210,510 people through 84,204 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
11 total violations and 2 health-based ones put INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - NORTHWEST at the 50th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,466 of 12,903.
Against the IN average
IN's 283 covered systems average 2.9 health-based violations each; INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - NORTHWEST carries 2, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - NORTHWEST's most recent violation on record is dated 2013-01-09, with the most recent health-based one dated 2013-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - NORTHWEST'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - NORTHWEST's record does not cover
INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - NORTHWEST'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 INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - NORTHWEST's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,466th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.