Andrews Water Department, IN
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.5 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Andrews Water Department at a glance
Andrews Water Department serves about 1,149 people through 447 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Huntington County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5235001; phone on file: 260-355-0150. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Andrews Water Department is 11.5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 11.5 ppb over 10 |
Where this result ranks
Of the 687 Indiana systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.31 ppb; 6 are over 15 ppb right now and 36 have gone over at some point. Andrews Water Department's 11.5 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Indiana and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Huntington County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Andrews Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Huntington Water Department | 17,300 | 6.85 ppb |
| Roanoke Water Works | 1,722 | 3.12 ppb |
| Warren Municipal Water Works | 1,237 | 5.8 ppb |
| Markle Water Utility | 1,095 | 2.1 ppb |
| Norwood Regional Water & Sewage | 486 | 0 (not detected) |
| Heritage Pointe | 451 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Andrews, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Andrews, IN may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Andrews Water Department whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.