Is LA PORTE CITY UTILITIES's water safe to drink?
LA PORTE CITY UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,284 people through 950 service connections.
LA PORTE CITY UTILITIES's record against the rest of the country
11 total violations and 2 health-based ones put LA PORTE CITY UTILITIES at the 50th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,514 of 12,903.
Against the IA average
Among the 203 IA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - LA PORTE CITY UTILITIES's 2 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
LA PORTE CITY UTILITIES's most recent violation on record is dated 2022-01-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 1981-11-04. Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
The concern categories on record
LA PORTE CITY UTILITIES'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:
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
The most severe category on record is radionuclides, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What LA PORTE CITY UTILITIES's record does not cover
This is what LA PORTE CITY UTILITIES 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. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for LA PORTE CITY UTILITIES - 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.