Bristol 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.
Bristol Water Department at a glance
Bristol Water Department serves about 1,805 people through 761 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 Elkhart County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5220003; phone on file: 574-848-7931. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bristol Water Department's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bristol Water Department is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
How Bristol Water Department compares
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 Water Department's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 23rd percentile in Indiana and the 30th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Elkhart County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bristol Water Department. 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 |
| Millersburg Water Company | 957 | 0.66 ppb |
| Bristol Mobile Village | 238 | 5 ppb |
| Elkhart Mobile Home Park | 96 | 1.4 ppb |
| Tall Oaks Mobile Home Park | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Bristol 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 Bristol 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.