Is RENSSELAER WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
RENSSELAER 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 6,200 people through 2,823 service connections.
RENSSELAER WATER DEPARTMENT's record against the rest of the country
37 total violations and 1 health-based ones put RENSSELAER WATER DEPARTMENT at the 41th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,561 of 12,903.
How RENSSELAER WATER DEPARTMENT compares within IN
Among the 283 IN systems in this dataset, the average is 2.9 health-based violations - RENSSELAER WATER DEPARTMENT's 1 is at or below that. 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 RENSSELAER WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2014-01-03 (health-based: 1997-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
RENSSELAER 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)
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
RENSSELAER WATER DEPARTMENT'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 RENSSELAER WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,561th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.