Is WHITING WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
WHITING WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,900 people get their water from it, across 1,495 connections.
WHITING WATER DEPARTMENT's record against the rest of the country
29 total violations and 3 health-based ones put WHITING WATER DEPARTMENT at the 62th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,933 of 12,903.
How WHITING WATER DEPARTMENT compares within IN
WHITING WATER DEPARTMENT's 3 health-based violations sit above 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 WHITING WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2025-01-01 (health-based: 2010-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WHITING 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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
WHITING 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 WHITING WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,933th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.