Community Water System · PWSID IN5216002

Greensburg Municipal Water Works

Serves 12,650 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentGreensburg, Indiana

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On record since 2000: 49 violations. 7 over the limit · 40 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-01-01.

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

7Over the limit

0Treatment lapse

40Missed or late test

2Notice or report

More violations on record than 97% 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

One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

14% over the limit · 782% missed or late test · 404% notice or report · 2

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

How far over the limit

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.8 ppb

2.1 ppb

2 ppb

1.7 ppb

1.5 ppb

Every violation on record

2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 80.80 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
2021-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 83.90 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 87.40 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
2021-04-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2021-04-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2021-04-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2021-04-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2021-04-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

Show the other 24 entries

2020-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 69.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
2019-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 67.30 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 80.40 UG/LBack in compliance
2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 63.30 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
2000-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served	12,650
Service connections	5,060
Water source	Surface Water
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Greensburg
EPA ZIP on file	47240

Areas served

Greensburg, Decatur County

Reading this record

Greensburg Municipal Water Works is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 12,650 people in Greensburg, 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.