Transient Non-Community · PWSID IN2440056

Brethren Retreat Center

Serves 72 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateShipshewana, Indiana
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2015: 18 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 15 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-10.

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
15Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 87% 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 183% missed or late test · 1511% notice or report · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-10Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  2. 2024-09-11Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  3. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2022-08-31E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2020-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2019-04-10E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2017-06-02Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  16. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  18. 2015-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served72
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityShipshewana
EPA ZIP on file46565

Areas served

  • Shipshewana, Lagrange County

Reading this record

Brethren Retreat Center is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 72 people in Shipshewana, 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.