Is PAOLI WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
PAOLI 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 3,677 people through 1,768 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
148 total violations and 9 health-based ones put PAOLI WATER DEPARTMENT at the 84th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,054 of 12,903.
Against the IN average
IN's 283 covered systems average 2.9 health-based violations each; PAOLI WATER DEPARTMENT carries 9, more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
PAOLI WATER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 2014-01-03, with the most recent health-based one dated 2004-01-11. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
PAOLI 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Surface Water Treatment 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 PAOLI WATER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover
Everything on this page is PAOLI WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and PAOLI WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,054th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.