Transient Non-Community · PWSID IN2920806

Big Lake Church of God

Serves 42 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateColumbia City, IndianaServes a school or daycare
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2022: 39 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 38 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2024-03-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
38Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% of active water systems in Indiana. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052010201520202022 · Missed or late test: 352022 · Missed or late test: 352022 · Missed or late test: 352022 · Missed or late test: 352022 · Missed or late test: 352022 · Missed or late test: 352022 · Missed or late test: 352022 · Missed or late test: 352022 · Missed or late test: 352022 · Missed or late test: 352022 · Missed or late test: 352022 · Missed or late test: 352023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 197% missed or late test · 38

Across Indiana, 78% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2024-01-15Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  3. 2023-11-22E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  5. 2022-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  6. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2022-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2022-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2022-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2022-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2022-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2022-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2022-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2022-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2022-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2022-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 14 entries
  1. 2022-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2022-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served42
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityColumbia City
EPA ZIP on file46725

Areas served

  • Columbia City, Whitley County

Reading this record

Big Lake Church of God is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 42 people in Columbia City, Indiana. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.