Community Water System · PWSID IN5254007

Linden Water Department

Serves 759 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentLinden, Indiana
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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: 60 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 57 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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
2Treatment lapse
57Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 98% 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: 21995 · Treatment lapse: 11995 · Missed or late test: 219952000 · Treatment lapse: 12000 · Missed or late test: 220002005201020152019 · Missed or late test: 420202021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 382024 · Missed or late test: 382024 · Missed or late test: 382024 · Missed or late test: 382024 · Missed or late test: 382024 · Missed or late test: 382024 · Missed or late test: 382024 · Missed or late test: 382024 · Missed or late test: 382024 · Missed or late test: 382025 · Missed or late test: 42025
One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 295% missed or late test · 572% notice or report · 1

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2024-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 35 entries
  1. 2024-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2021-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2021-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  24. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  26. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  27. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  28. 2000-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  29. 2000-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  30. 2000-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  31. 1995-07-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  32. 1995-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  33. 1995-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  34. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  35. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served759
Service connections320
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityLinden
EPA ZIP on file47955

Areas served

  • Linden, Montgomery County

Reading this record

Linden Water Department is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 759 people in Linden, 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.