Indiana
Water Infrastructure Asset Management
Indiana
Intro
On July 1, 2025 Indiana passed legislation that requires all Indiana water and wastewater utilities to develop and maintain an Asset Management Plan (AMP), and submit it to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) every four years. The reports must be submitted quadrennially regardless of whether the utility has applied for or received financial assistance from the Indiana Finance Authority.
MentorAPM in
Indiana
MentorAPM asset management tools make it easy for public water utilities to develop and execute on their asset management plans for compliance with Indiana law.
Did you know
Indiana is home to the longest-known underground river in the United States, which flows through the Bluespring Caverns, a 21-mile-long cave system.
Opportunities and Obligations
State Asset Management
Funding
- To submit a project for funding, utilities must certify having completed and executed an AM program. SRF loan grant recipients are required to “demonstrate that it has developed or is in the process of developing an asset management program as defined in the guidelines of its authority.”
Regulatory
- Mandatory reporting will begin in 2026. The law also establishes a tiered enforcement framework for non-compliance, from deficiency notices to potential receivership. Support for small utilities – systems with fewer than 1,000 customers — will have streamlined reporting and more flexible requirements.
- As of 2027, governing bodies must complete training on asset management best practices and financial management.
- Systems that apply for a construction permit to increase system capacity must certify that an AM plan has been fully implemented, per Indiana Code 13-18-26.
- New community and NTNC systems are required to complete a water system management plan that includes AM, per the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM).
- Asset management questions are being included in the sanitary survey to ascertain if utilities are employing AM; they also serve as an initial capacity review.
Assistance
- Technical assistance providers encourage and train utilities in AM principals and development. The Alliance of Indiana Rural Water provides both in-person training and online courses in AM.
- In-person meetings conducted by the Capacity Development staff are scheduled for systems found to have capacity issues; discussions include capacity building and the development of an AM plan. Small systems are guided through the process of asset management planning by the RCAP technical assistance providers.
Resources
- New Mandate for Asset Management: https://www.in.gov/iurc/water-and-wastewater-division/asset-management-program-reporting-for-water-and-wastewater-utilities/
- Indiana Department of Environmental Management Drinking Water Capacity Development, Operator Certification, Permits, and Backflow Prevention and Cross Connection Control Program: https://www.in.gov/idem/cleanwater/drinking-water/drinking-water-operator-certification/
- Asset Management Program Guidance for the Indiana State Revolving Fund Loan Program: https://www.in.gov/ifa/srf/files/AMP-Guidance-Packet-update-9-17-2019.pdf
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