Is SCOTTSBURG WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
SCOTTSBURG 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 7,369 people through 3,355 service connections.
How this compares nationally
77 total violations and 55 health-based ones put SCOTTSBURG WATER DEPARTMENT at the 98th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 236 of 12,903.
How SCOTTSBURG WATER DEPARTMENT compares within IN
Among the 283 IN systems in this dataset, the average is 2.9 health-based violations - SCOTTSBURG WATER DEPARTMENT's 55 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for SCOTTSBURG WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2024-01-09 (health-based: 2016-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SCOTTSBURG 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: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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 SCOTTSBURG 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 SCOTTSBURG WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 236th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.