Van Wert City
Community water system in Van Wert County, Ohio, serving 10,846 people from surface water. 4 rules violated in the past three years. Owned by local government.
Quarterly compliance history
2023
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2024
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2026
Rules violated in the past three years
Jul to Sep 2023 to Jul to Sep 2026
Interim and Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Monitoring and Reporting
1 violation, Mar 2026 to May 2026 · Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Interim and Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Monitoring and Reporting1 violation, Mar 2026 to May 2026 · Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Monitoring and Reporting: 1 violation, Mar 2026 to May 2026. The system did not complete required monitoring, or did not report the results on time. This does not show that a contaminant was found.
Contaminant on the record: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule.
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Monitoring and Reporting
2 violations, Jan 2024 to Feb 2024
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Monitoring and Reporting2 violations, Jan 2024 to Feb 2024
Monitoring and Reporting: 2 violations, Jan 2024 to Feb 2024. The system did not complete required monitoring, or did not report the results on time. This does not show that a contaminant was found.
What the rule requires: All systems using surface water (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) or groundwater under surface influence (GWUDI) must filter and disinfect. Treatment technique violations mean the system failed to maintain adequate disinfectant residual, exceeded turbidity limits, or lacked required permits. Snowmelt and storm events can raise turbidity and pathogen loads in surface water.
About this rule
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule
Maximum Contaminant Level Violation
Health-based
4 violations, Jul 2023 to Jun 2026 · TTHM (Total Trihalomethanes) · 4 measured values
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule
Maximum Contaminant Level Violation Health-based4 violations, Jul 2023 to Jun 2026 · TTHM (Total Trihalomethanes) · 4 measured values
Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, health-based: 4 violations, Jul 2023 to Jun 2026. A sample exceeded the maximum contaminant level EPA allows in drinking water.
Limit 0.08 MG/L · Apr to Jun 2026
Limit 0.08 MG/L · Apr to Jun 2025
Limit 0.08 MG/L · Jan to Mar 2025
Limit 0.08 MG/L · Jul to Sep 2023
Contaminant on the record: TTHM (Total Trihalomethanes).
TTHM (Total Trihalomethanes), health effects: Long-term exposure is associated with increased bladder cancer risk. Some studies link high TTHM exposure to adverse reproductive outcomes. Bromodichloromethane is classified as a possible human carcinogen. Limit: 0.080 mg/L (80 ppb) locational running annual average (LRAA)
Lead and Copper Rule Revisions
Reporting Violation
1 violation, Jul 2025 to Dec 2025
Lead and Copper Rule Revisions
Reporting Violation1 violation, Jul 2025 to Dec 2025
Reporting Violation: 1 violation, Jul 2025 to Dec 2025. The system did not report required information on time.
What the rule requires: The 2021 LCRR updated the 1991 LCR with mandatory lead service line inventories and replacement planning, a new 'trigger level' at 10 ppb requiring optimization, and strengthened public education. The 2024 Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) further requires replacing all lead service lines within 10 years.
About this ruleLead and copper at the tap
The 90th percentile of the tap samples the system collected in its latest monitoring period, against EPA's action level. Levels vary between homes.
Action level 0.015 mg/L · Jan to Dec 2025
Action level 1.3 mg/L · Jun to Sep 2004
About this data
Rules violated and the list above come from EPA's SDWIS violation records, one row per violation and contaminant, grouped by the rule each row belongs to. A violation counts when its non-compliance period ended on or after Jul 1, 2023, the start of the thirteen quarters ECHO's three-year figures cover, or is still open; it is unresolved when it was still open at EPA's data refresh on Oct 7, 2026. EPA's rule code 500, "Not Regulated", is left out, as in ECHO's counts. Each rule's violation count is EPA's, and one rule can carry several: a missed monitoring round for a group of contaminants is one violation per contaminant and period. Category names are EPA's violation categories.
ECHO's own summary count of rules violated agrees with this grouping for 98.8% of active systems nationally, and its count of rules being violated for 98.7%; where they differ, the figures here follow the rows listed.
A measured value shown with a rule is the sample result EPA recorded with that violation (SDWIS viol_measure), against the limit EPA recorded on the same row (state_mcl), both in EPA's unit as written; violations without a recorded value, such as missed monitoring, show none. Other measured contaminant levels are not part of this record; each system publishes them in its annual Consumer Confidence Report.
Lead and copper are the newest 90th-percentile results in EPA's SDWA data download (LCR_SAMPLES, codes PB90 and CU90): for each monitoring period a system reports the 90th-percentile value of its tap samples, which EPA compares with its action level of 0.015 mg/L for lead and 1.3 mg/L for copper (40 CFR 141.80). A result is not a measurement of any one tap.
Service area from EPA's Public Water System Service Area Boundaries dataset: Random Forest method, Federal agency. The system's location is the centre of the service area EPA publishes for the system.
Source: the U.S. EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online system (ECHO), which publishes the federal Safe Drinking Water Information System. EPA's terms and values are shown as published. The Ohio records are from EPA's data refresh of Oct 7, 2026; EPA refreshes this data quarterly, and states report to EPA with a lag of three to six months, so the newest violations may not appear yet.