Is PENDLETON WATER COMPANY's water safe to drink?
PENDLETON WATER COMPANY had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 5,758 people get their water from it, across 2,308 connections.
How this compares nationally
PENDLETON WATER COMPANY has 7 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,477th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 34th percentile nationally.
How PENDLETON WATER COMPANY compares within IN
PENDLETON WATER COMPANY's 1 health-based violations sit within the IN average of 2.9, across 283 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for PENDLETON WATER COMPANY is from 2023-03-02 (health-based: 2023-03-02). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PENDLETON WATER COMPANY'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: 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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is PENDLETON WATER COMPANY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for PENDLETON WATER COMPANY - 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.