MICHIGAN CITY DEPARTMENT OF WATER WORKS: EPA violation history, explained

MICHIGAN CITY DEPARTMENT OF WATER WORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 33,996, over 13,950 connections.

MICHIGAN CITY DEPARTMENT OF WATER WORKS's record against the rest of the country

MICHIGAN CITY DEPARTMENT OF WATER WORKS has 32 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,626th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 41th percentile nationally.

Against the IN average

IN's 283 covered systems average 2.9 health-based violations each; MICHIGAN CITY DEPARTMENT OF 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

MICHIGAN CITY DEPARTMENT OF WATER WORKS's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2011-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.

The concern categories on record

MICHIGAN CITY DEPARTMENT OF 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 MICHIGAN CITY DEPARTMENT OF WATER WORKS's record does not cover

This is what MICHIGAN CITY DEPARTMENT OF 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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for MICHIGAN CITY DEPARTMENT OF WATER WORKS - 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.