Is LAPORTE WATER WORKS's water safe to drink?
LAPORTE WATER WORKS had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 22,197 people through 8,400 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
4 total violations and 2 health-based ones put LAPORTE WATER WORKS at the 46th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,928 of 12,903.
Against the IN average
Among the 283 IN systems in this dataset, the average is 2.9 health-based violations - LAPORTE WATER WORKS's 2 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
LAPORTE WATER WORKS's most recent violation on record is dated 2024-05-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2024-05-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
LAPORTE 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: Groundwater Rule; Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule
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 LAPORTE WATER WORKS's record does not cover
LAPORTE WATER WORKS'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 LAPORTE WATER WORKS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,928th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.