Transient Non-Community · PWSID IN2920884

St. John Lutheran Church

Serves 120 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateColumbia City, Indiana
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On record since 2002: 8 violations. 6 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-04-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
2Notice or report

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

2002 · Missed or late test: 1200520102015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
75% missed or late test · 625% notice or report · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2018-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2017-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  7. 2015-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  8. 2002-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served120
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityColumbia City
EPA ZIP on file46725

Areas served

  • Columbia City, Whitley County

Reading this record

St. John Lutheran Church is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 120 people in Columbia City, 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.