Center Point Water Works, IN
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.48 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Center Point Water Works at a glance
Center Point Water Works serves about 625 people through 250 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 Clay County, Indiana. EPA system ID: IN5211003; phone on file: 812-835-3142. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Center Point Water Works is 2.48 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.48 ppb |
How Center Point Water Works 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. Center Point Water Works's 2.48 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Indiana and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Clay County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Center Point Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil City Water Works | 12,000 | 4.53 ppb |
| Knightsville Water Works | 1,523 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clay City Water Works | 1,152 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carbon Water Corporation | 1,088 | 0 (not detected) |
| Staunton Municipal Water | 550 | 1.2 ppb |
| Hickory Lake Water Management Org | 45 | 1.81 ppb |
Next steps for Centerpoint, IN
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Centerpoint, 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 Center Point Water Works 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.