Is PURDUE UNIV. WATER WORKS's water safe to drink?
PURDUE UNIV. WATER WORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 50,000 people get their water from it, across 241 connections.
PURDUE UNIV. WATER WORKS's record against the rest of the country
27 total violations and 1 health-based ones put PURDUE UNIV. WATER WORKS at the 40th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,694 of 12,903.
How PURDUE UNIV. WATER WORKS compares within IN
IN's 283 covered systems average 2.9 health-based violations each; PURDUE UNIV. 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
The last violation EPA has on record for PURDUE UNIV. WATER WORKS is from 2019-01-05 (health-based: 2001-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PURDUE UNIV. 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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is PURDUE UNIV. WATER WORKS's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 27 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.