Bristol Mobile Village, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Bristol Mobile Village at a glance
Bristol Mobile Village serves about 238 people through 70 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Elkhart County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5220001; phone on file: 574-848-7811. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Bristol Mobile Village's lead record
That is up 5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bristol Mobile Village is 5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Indiana systems
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. Bristol Mobile Village's 5 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Indiana and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Elkhart County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Bristol Mobile Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elkhart Public Works And Utilities | 46,455 | 2 ppb |
| Goshen Water Utility | 32,267 | 5.8 ppb |
| Nappanee Water Utility | 6,800 | 1.03 ppb |
| Middlebury Water Department | 3,420 | 1.3 ppb |
| Wakarusa Water Works | 1,998 | 0.57 ppb |
| Bristol Water Department | 1,805 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millersburg Water Company | 957 | 0.66 ppb |
| Elkhart Mobile Home Park | 96 | 1.4 ppb |
| Tall Oaks Mobile Home Park | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Bristol, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bristol, 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 Bristol Mobile Village 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.