Transient Non-Community · PWSID IN2440898

Howe United Methodist Church

Serves 70 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHowe, Indiana
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On record since 2016: 11 violations. 2 over the limit · 9 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2025-03-10.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
9Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 76% 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

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Over the limit: 12025 · Over the limit: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
18% over the limit · 282% missed or late test · 9

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×+Nitrate2025-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 15.90 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.6×)2024-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.16 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)
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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-03-10NitrateMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.90 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2024-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 13.16 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served70
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHowe
EPA ZIP on file46746

Areas served

  • Howe, Lagrange County

Reading this record

Howe United Methodist Church is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 70 people in Howe, 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.