Lake County, Indiana

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    106

  • Community Water Systems

    31

  • Systems with Violations

    12

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    1

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    28

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    11/29/2022

  • Population Served

    513,629

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    0.68%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    6

  • CWA Total Violations

    61

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    860

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.448%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    497,682

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $66,375

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    4.1%

  • MALE

    242,732

  • FEMALE

    254,950

  • MEDIAN AGE

    39.3

  • MULTIRACIAL

    397,267

  • WHITE

    261,728

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    114,698

  • LATINO

    100,415

  • ASIAN

    7,489

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    608

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    106

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this county here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=IN&p_fips=18089 Other .gov state water resources: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/indiana/ Additional state water resources:https://iwrrc.org/factsheet-indiana-water-resources/https://indwv.gecsws.com/