Community Water System · PWSID IN5202020

Fort Wayne - 3 Rivers Filtration Plant

Serves 269,994 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentFort Wayne, Indiana
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On record since 2000: 5 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 1 missed or late test · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-01-01.

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
1Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 51% 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

2000 · Notice or report: 120002001 · Notice or report: 120052010201520202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% treatment lapse · 120% missed or late test · 160% notice or report · 3

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

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 18 results on file · action level 15 ppb

18.4 ppb
15.7 ppb
14.9 ppb
9 ppb
7.1 ppb
4.8 ppb
4.8 ppb
4.7 ppb
4.3 ppb
3.8 ppb
3.8 ppb
3.4 ppb
3.2 ppb
3.2 ppb
3.1 ppb
3.1 ppb
3.1 ppb
2.6 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  3. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2001-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  5. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served269,994
Service connections109,896
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityFort Wayne
EPA ZIP on file46805

Areas served

  • Fort Wayne, Allen County

Reading this record

Fort Wayne - 3 Rivers Filtration Plant is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 269,994 people in Fort Wayne, 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.