Porter County, Indiana

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    83

  • Community Water Systems

    8

  • Systems with Violations

    13

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    2

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    37

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    05/23/2019

  • Population Served

    60,969

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    0.56%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    2

  • CWA Total Violations

    30

The American Community Survey

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

    255

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.375%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    173,355

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $82,915

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

    3%

  • MALE

    86,060

  • FEMALE

    87,295

  • MEDIAN AGE

    40.1

  • MULTIRACIAL

    154,698

  • WHITE

    140,325

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    6,920

  • LATINO

    18,657

  • ASIAN

    2,393

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    130

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    19

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=18127 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/