Avilla Water Department, IN
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Avilla Water Department
Avilla Water Department serves about 2,700 people through 880 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 Noble County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5257002; phone on file: 260-897-2781. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Avilla Water Department's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Avilla Water Department is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Avilla Water Department's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 26th percentile in Indiana and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Noble County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Avilla Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kendallville Water Department | 10,300 | 4.06 ppb |
| Ligonier Water Works | 4,405 | 5.8 ppb |
| Albion Water & Sewer | 2,349 | 8.51 ppb |
| Cromwell Water Works | 550 | 1.89 ppb |
| Eagles Nest Estates | 350 | 3.7 ppb |
| Chain O Lakes Correctional Facility | 186 | 31.3 ppb |
| Rome City Housing Auth. - Warrener Court | 94 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grate Properties Mhc | 66 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northport Mobile Home Park | 47 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leisure Lane Mobile Home Park | 31 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Avilla, IN
Look up your address in Avilla Water Department's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Avilla 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.