Community Water System · PWSID IN5240001

Burnt Pines Water Association

Serves 900 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateNorth Vernon, Indiana
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1994: 34 violations. 19 over the limit · 8 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

19Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test1 open
7Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 95% 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

1994 · Missed or late test: 21994 · Missed or late test: 21995 · Missed or late test: 119952000 · Missed or late test: 12000 · Notice or report: 120002001 · Notice or report: 120052008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 220102013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 820152016 · Over the limit: 52016 · Over the limit: 52016 · Over the limit: 52016 · Over the limit: 52016 · Over the limit: 52017 · Over the limit: 12018 · Over the limit: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
56% over the limit · 1924% missed or late test · 821% notice or report · 7

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2018-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 64.50 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 60.60 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.80 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 90.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 67.70 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 90.70 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 89.80 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2015-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 77.50 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.3×)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 92.10 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.2×)2015-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 76.70 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.3×)2015-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 93.20 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.2×)2015-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 81.70 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.4×)2015-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 101.20 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.3×)2014-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 104.70 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.7×)2014-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 129.60 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.6×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

1.7 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 64.50 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 60.60 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.80 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 90.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 67.70 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 90.70 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 89.80 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 77.50 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 92.10 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2015-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 76.70 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 93.20 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2015-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.70 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 101.20 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2015-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 98.90 UG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 103.60 UG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2014-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 93.50 UG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2014-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 125.60 UG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2014-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 104.70 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2014-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 129.60 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2013-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
Show the other 9 entries
  1. 2009-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2008-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2001-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  5. 2000-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2000-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 1995-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  8. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  9. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served900
Service connections320
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityNorth Vernon
EPA ZIP on file47265

Areas served

  • North Vernon, Jennings County

Reading this record

Burnt Pines Water Association is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 900 people in North Vernon, 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.