South Bend Francis Club
On record since 2002: 8 violations. 4 over the limit · 4 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2025-04-01.
For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.
More violations on record than 67% 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
Across Indiana, 78% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.
How far over the limit
Every violation on record
- 2025-04-01NitrateMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
- 2025-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.95 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
- 2024-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 13.22 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
- 2024-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.20 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
- 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
- 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
- 2015-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 16.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
- 2002-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
System details
| Population served | 80 |
| Service connections | 1 |
| Water source | Groundwater |
| System type | Transient Non-Community |
| Owner | Private |
| Status | Active |
| City | South Bend |
| EPA ZIP on file | 46614 |
Areas served
- South Bend, St. Joseph County
Reading this record
South Bend Francis Club is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 80 people in South Bend, 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.